When animal welfare officers in the Polish city of Krakow were called out to a sighting of an unusual animal squatting in a residential area, their initial reaction was this must be a late April Fool's joke. euronews.com/2021/04/16/mys…
Earlier this week, authorities in Krakow said in a Facebook post that a woman called them to report a creature sitting in the tree across from her house.
"People aren't opening their windows because they're afraid it will go into their house," the woman added.
When the officers arrived, the beast wasn't a bird of prey as they hypothesised, but... a croissant.
In a lighthearted account of events, the officer, who calls himself "Inspector Adam", describes how the caller insisted the animal was not a large bird, going on to suggest it could be an iguana.
After a short search, the officers spot the "brown creature sitting on a lilac branch" with its "brown coat shining in the sun." The mysterious "animal" was in fact a flaky pastry.
The authority's jokey post was followed with a more serious message in which they advised the public to always report animal sightings they are concerned about if they are in doubt.
Animal welfare officers said they were "almost swept off their feet by a laughing attack" when they realised the ‘animal’ was a croissant. Read the full story 👇 euronews.com/2021/04/16/mys…
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The EU invested €2.7 billion on vaccine agreements. Critics say production and delivery delays could have been avoided if the EU included penalties if companies did not produce the agreed-upon doses.
For many countries in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans, buying COVID vaccines has thrown up similar issues to those that existed during the Cold War.
In several European countries, a US-based anti-abortion organisation connected undercover reporters to local doctors for a dangerous abortion reversal treatment. euronews.com/2021/03/25/doc…
A medical abortion, possible for women who are less than 10 weeks pregnant, involves taking two pills that are up to 48 hours apart.
Supporters of abortion "reversal" claim that after taking the first pill, a woman can reverse the abortion before taking the second pill by taking high doses of progesterone. But this isn’t grounded in scientific evidence.
Dritan Abazovic says that the EU-backed court is holding up investigations into Montenegro's president, Milo Djukanovic, and his allies. euronews.com/2021/03/24/mon…
Montenegro’s new government says at least four corruption probes involving President Milo Djukanovic are currently on hold - and that the country’s EU-backed special prosecutor Milovoje Katnic is to blame.
But lawmakers in Brussels are unlikely to approve of what is being seen by critics of the new government as a witch-hunt against political rivals, Djukanovic included.
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Police officers in Madrid arrested a suspected upskirter on August 21, who the officers confirm to be in the possession of 283 videos, in which 555 victims appear.
The videos were filmed on the metro or in supermarkets and uploaded by the alleged upskirter to his website.
The investigation began when “agents located a web portal dedicated to the publication of videos of explicit sexual and pornographic content with more than 20 million followers,” police said.
The suspect was arrested on August 21 on the Madrid metro, after officers observed him engaging in upskirting. They brought him to his home, searched hard drives and discovered illicit images.