the Organization NOAH-for animal rights, reported the programme Satiriks to the police in Oslo to have exercised violence against gullfiskene, and carried out an unlawful killing.
the Case concerns the killing of aquarium fish by type of fighting fish (betta splendens) in a tv program that was sent 22. February of this year.
Killed the goldfish with a married
In a fixture the desired the satirical programme to show what happens when it is dumped pollutants in the Repparfjorden. The recording was done in the shopping center Storo Senter in Oslo, where the two programledere each had its akvariebolle with two goldfish in the middle.
They had a small audience and explained that they should look at the effect of the dumping of grusavfall and poison the fish.
First poured the gravel in the one bowl with fish and it is found to exist, it does not seem to harm the fish. Then poured a transparent toxic liquid in the bowl. After a short time located the fish on the back. Cohost concludes that poison is not good for the fish.
the Application was sent 22. February of this year, but the current entry after the criticism removed from The platforms.
the Prosecutor henla case
These two gullfiskene survived the shooting in the Storo Center, but died unfortunately later in the aquarium in Satiriks-redaksjonens premises.
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the Prosecutor henla first review because he believed that the relationship is not punishable. NOAH complained and now the director of public prosecutions converted statsadvokatens decision.
After the attorney general’s assessment is underholdningselementet the clear dominant in this application, and to kill fish with poison is a violation of the dyrevelferdsloven section 12, fourth paragraph. There it says: “Euthanasia of animals should not happen as an independent entertainment or competitive factor.”
the attorney general has therefore decided that NRK should get foretaksstraff with a fine of 10.000 nok.
In its decision, write the attorney general that the records that NRK Satiriks even have expressed that the dyrevelferdsloven is broken.
the Norwegian food safety Authority reacted
the Application triggered a number of complaints in social media and Dagens Næringsliv has earlier written that also the Norwegian food safety Authority responded.
– We are very critical of the fact that NRK in the program Satiriks avliver fish in this way. It is forbidden to euthanize animals as entertainment, and it applies of course, regardless of whether it is intended as satire, or not, said seniorinspektør Ingvild Halvorsen of the Norwegian food safety Authority to the DN.
the Prosecutor who reviewed the case twice came therefore to that it had not happened something punishable and that the actions of whatever may be protected by freedom of speech.
– Not protection of freedom of expression
the attorney general does not share such opinion, and writes that it is possible to convey the relevant message in other ways than to kill the living fish with poison. Freedom of expression must also be viewed in the context of what are generally accepted norms for behavior in the community, mean the director of public prosecutions.
By reaksjonsfastsettelsen be it in mitigating the direction of emphasis on the fact that it is speech of an individual case.
In the straffeskjerpende direction emphasized among other things that the Norwegian broadcasting corporation as a national media company by conducting and publishing a breach of the dyrevelferdsloven in a underholdningsmessig context contributes to the weakening of respect for the animals and good animal welfare.
NRK will consider the case
Head of the legal department in NRK, Ane Stokland, say they have access to all the case documents in the day, and therefore have to spend some time to consider whether the fine should be adopted.
– We note that the prosecutor henla to the case and that he maintained henleggelsen after complaint over henleggelsesbeslutningen. The prosecutor argued, first, that the relationship is not affected by straffebestemmelsen and further assumed that the consideration of freedom of expression regardless of suggests that the relationship is not punishable.
– Now the director of public prosecutions converted henleggelsesbeslutningen, and NRK will look into this, ” says Ane Stokland who is the head of the legal department in the Norwegian broadcasting corporation.
If NRK do not adopt the fine ports of the matter in the judicial system.
