{"id":8884,"date":"2019-05-06T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2019-05-08T10:49:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:49:18","slug":"two-animal-rights-militants-held-in-paris-over-butcher-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2019\/05\/06\/two-animal-rights-militants-held-in-paris-over-butcher-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Two animal rights militants held in Paris over butcher assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"t-location\"><a href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019_butcher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8885\" src=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019_butcher-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019_butcher-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019_butcher-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019_butcher.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Paris (AFP)<\/p>\n<p>Two people were facing assault charges Monday after dousing a butcher and his stand with red liquid at a market in Paris over the weekend, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The butcher, who specialises in organically-raised meat, was at his stall in the covered Saint-Quentin market in the north of the capital when it was targeted on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was preparing a client&#8217;s order. I felt liquid hit me, I touched my head and the liquid was quite red,&#8221; the butcher told BFM television.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I looked up and there were 15 or 20 people in front of the stand with the slogans &#8216;Freedom and defence for animals&#8217;,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The two suspects were to be brought before a judge to face potential charges later Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A series of French butcher shops have been vandalised in recent months by &#8220;anti-speciesism&#8221; activists, who say eating meat is an immoral violation of the rights of other species.<\/p>\n<p>Last month a court in northern France handed jail terms to two vegan activists for a string of attacks on butchers, shops and restaurants selling meat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris (AFP) Two people were facing assault charges Monday after dousing a butcher and his stand with red liquid at a market in Paris over the weekend, prosecutors said. The butcher, who specialises in organically-raised meat, was at his stall in the covered Saint-Quentin market in the north of the capital when it was targeted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2019\/05\/06\/two-animal-rights-militants-held-in-paris-over-butcher-assault\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8886,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions\/8886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}