Thursday, October 15, 2009

Outcome of meeting with President


Yesterday morning, Neal & I met with Jorge Figueiredo, the President of the Camara Municipal do Sal (Town Hall).

Sr Figueiredo did not know about the poisoning and seemed genuinely upset about it. We had forgotten that he knew Rasher and even remembered his name. He had met Rasher at the inauguration of our hatchery on Praia Antonio de Sousa.

The President told us that he does not agree with poisoning of animals and that he knows that it does not work. No one in the CM is authorised to put poison down and he said that they are not responsible for the poison outside the Riu Hotel.

While we were there he called Sr Antero Alfama, the counciller for the environment, who is aware of the incident and is investigating. He also spoke to Ana Paula, the head of the Health Department. It seems that the Health Department has been responsible for poisoning in the past. Sra Paula is in Santiago at the moment and did not know anything about it, but is also now going to investigate.

Sr Figueiredo was suprised that we had not reported the crime to the police, but it was something we hadn't really thought about. I don't know why, since it is against the law. He told us that he would talk to the judiciary police and instruct them to start an investigation.

Some progress I suppose but still a deathly silence from the Riu Hotel.

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