With protest actions have provided militant animal rights activists in several Australian cities on Monday for considerable traffic delays. In Melbourne, the second largest city in the country, blocked the protesters in a busy intersection.

they parked the mini buses in the middle of the road and sat down on the roadway. In two suburbs animal rights activists chained themselves to trucks, to prevent the access to slaughterhouses. Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the protests as “un-Australian”.

In the vicinity of Brisbane, several dozen animal rights activists in chained themselves also in the vicinity of a slaughter-house. In the vicinity of Sydney, nine protesters were arrested. Protests were held also in Sydney and Hobart, the capital of the Australian island of Tasmania.

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Created: 08.04.2019, 08:34 PM