An Animals' Angels team follows a transport of calves through Greece. The animals come from Romania. The truck is cramped and some of the calves are suffering from diarrhoea. We follow them to Kakavia on the border with Albania. Here the calves are to be taken to a fattening farm. On the way to the border we come across two more animal transports - this time with pregnant heifers from Germany. They have water and it's not so cramped on board, but the floor is dirty and there's no bedding.
When an animal transport leaves the EU's external border, an official veterinarian must check the vehicles, the accompanying documents and, above all, the condition of the animals - but not in Kakavia. Here, regardless of the condition of the animals, the transports cross the border unhindered and without any checks. This happens with the approval of the Greek government and the European Commission, to which we have been drawing attention for the past five years. Everybody knows about it, but nobody lifts a finger. We will not settle for that. We will continue to be with the animals, document their suffering and report the abuse. Where no one is looking, we will look.
