What follows is the story published on Facebook by a Romanian charity working in Craiova, Speranta pentru Animale. Comments are not needed: pictures and words of the protagonists are enough.

“It all started with a post on our page, last night around 19:00 o’clock, a desperate cry for help: someone asked us to go to a horse that fell in the midle of the street, abandoned after being starved and beaten until he fell. We knew from the beginning that was different from other cases: dogs, cats. And that we would fight with windmills, but still we hoped that maybe this time it would have been different. We went to the animal and found him in agony in the snow at -15 degrees. After about half an hour, we reached a road where we saw a police car and several people who looked helpless. At that moment we realized how powerless we were and in  what kind of country we live and what kind of people we are.
First thing we did was to cover the horse with some blankets, then the nightmare began. We called the emergency number and we stated that we needed the help of a veterinarian and firemans to help us raise a horse in agony in the snow at -15 degrees. The answer was: firemen will not come cause they can’t do anything. (…) they gave us a phone number of the cityhall and confirmed they could not intervene, the cityhall had to. We noted the number and we called. The answer? No help, the director does not answer to phone, try again later.  And we waited and waited…. and the poor animal became weaker.  Again we called the cityhall … the same answer: we are unable to make contact with Mr. Director. Ok can you send us a veterinar? Answer was NO! No vet is available at this hour.
The first vet we contacted was famous doctor Avram, who takes care of local dog shelter Facai (a death camp). “I’m home with the family at the table, I cannot help, come back tomorrow. He said he was not in charge with that area of the city (the street where the horse was), Dr. Constantin was responsible for it, but he could not give us his phone number. We found the number of Dr. Constantin (Constantin is medical doctor’s concession hall) … What do you think he said? He was not in town, he was 10 km away from Craiova and would not come anyway. Why disturbing him at midnight? He said “leave it alone, come to my practice in the morning” and he closed the phone! While I tried to call the authorities, the colleagues asked for help from the press. But we all hit the same refusal! Nobody can, nobody knows, nobody wants anything. I called the cityhall again: finally we were told they would send a machine to come to the horse (still alive) to take him in the park at the zoo and to become  food for lions.
(…) Is it true what I hear? In a few minutes I realized that time was passing over us and if we didn’t do something they would have arrived and kill him. It is hard to say what we felt. We had to find a vet. In Romania a vet it is not allowed to take care for a horse that doesn`t have a chip (it is illegal), he only can put to sleep the animal. After dozens of desperate phones, a miracle happened! We managed to find a veterinarian to come to help us. Poor suffering animal is coming to an end .. (….)”.

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