‘The illegal trade It is done under the pretext of adoption but then doing internet research we observe that there are finally prices for these animals“, She tells the newsit.gr its chairman Interdisciplinary Center for Stray Animal Care (DOUBLES), Grigoris Gouromichalisand explains that all this organized crime is concealed under the umbrella of good intention and adoption of animals.
It is recalled that Police have dismantled a network of illegal animal trade that had set up in Gerakas five people. A 42 -year -old alien and a 45 -year -old man were arrested for the case on Wednesday (18.06.25) in Agia Paraskevi, while the vet is sought. The police found in cages 27 dogs, a cat and one hawkwhich the circuit wanted to sell for 4,000 euros.
According to a newsit.gr report, circuits operating in illegal pet circuits are looking for animals that will be impressive but at the same time indifferent to their health.
“They take them from here to send them for adoption and when they reach their destination they are sold and it is clearly for a speculative business and all this is done under the cloak of philanthropy. They are interested in breed animals and half as long as they have a nice appearance, “the DIKEPAZ president stresses about the prevailing situation.
Spirals seem to sell animals through ads posing on web pages and most of the time keep someone as a showcase petshop or somebody pet grooming. What is worth noting is that prices are particularly attractive to prospective guardians who are going to buy the pet animal of their choice and certainly the difference in price from the legal breeder is high.
Newsit.gr also secured a dialogue between an interested party and a seller to acquire a hawk with the price of the animal amounting to 4,000 euros.
“A lot of money, very big the game”
A friend who has dedicated her life to volunteering and rescuing the animals speaking to newsit.gr describes to these unscrupulous traders that they act and the amount are difficult to pass on to them.
“Animal money is a lot of money that they have found to make money. Another similar incident of illegal trade in animals like Gerakas I know and exported to animals in the Netherlands had a refuge in Amfissa but after complaints. There they were taking the strangers and told the municipality that they would neuter 20 animals but eventually gathered two hundred strangers. Three times a year they were driving them through Bulgaria and taken by others where from there we know nothing about these animals what was happening, ”he points out.
As he argues, animals are always carried by the border and usually the destination is the Netherlands. Illegal animal trade aims only to profit and when none of these people are interested in the situation in which the animals are, so many of them lose their lives along the way.
‘Traffic is moving’ by road ‘
“They are ruthless traders who exploit dogs or other animals, psyches that hurt and carry them under adverse conditions to reach their destination. If the border was properly controlled, these animals could not cross and so the trafficking is carried out by road and not from an airport, “he notes.
According to the rescuer argued, a Maltese whose value is about 1,500 with 1,800 euros From the illegal merchant one will find it 350 euros But these are animals that sometimes come from incest and sometimes they are sick because their reproduction and their living conditions are not what they should.
“Animals without papers, no chips, no vaccines are illegally moving because if they do all this will cost them but they want zero costs and a lot of money for it can and sell them at low prices. Those who go up the Netherlands for so many days in the truck die half on the road because in the summer dummy and high temperatures without their care that cares for them, “he concludes.