Novartis under attack from anti-vivisectionists

"Dealing with HLS means dealing with US." - MFAH Austria

In an act of direct action against top Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) customer Novartis, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Vasella had his hunting lodge in the town of Bach, in Tyrol, Austria, destroyed by fire (see photos). The Militant Forces Against HLS (MFAH) claimed responsibility for the arson in an anonymous communique, calling on Vasella to sever all ties with HLS. The activists reported that Vasella butchers animals at HLS, Europe's largest and most exposed vivisection laboratory, through contracts made with Novartis, as well as butchering animals in his own private hunting estate. A spokesperson for Novartis said he has now decided to sell the property that was burnt with 60 litres of petrol.

The MFAH formed in April this year and have targeted HLS customers in France, Germany, Belgium and now Austria. They are relatively unknown and adhere to no guidelines, although are affiliated with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). In recent months the militant group have reportedly targeted Novartis in France, burning down a sports centre and in Germany, vandalising the Vice Chairman's cars and home, returning a month later to place incendiary devices under his two cars. They have also targeted HLS customers Sandoz, Sanofi-Aventis, Bayer, Schering Plough and Pfizer.

On July 27th in Chur, Switzerland, media reported that the ashes of Vasella's mother were stolen and her gravestone defaced with "Drop HLS Now". Additionally, about three weeks ago, graffiti slogans against Vasella and Novartis were written on the church in Vasella's village of Risch in central Switzerland. Messages were also left on the road near his home including "Vasella is a killer. We are watching you. Death to Vasella. We'll be back."

Furthermore, the Animal Liberation Brigade in June claimed setting fire to the Novartis directors cars in Switzerland. ALF activists also said they vandalised the property of four Novartis executives in May, painted the house of another worker in April and painted slogans against company offices in Mexico and the UK.

According to Novartis, attacks on houses and cars of the company employees as well as on Novartis property have grown in recent months, no doubt due to the MFAH, ALF and attacks by other individuals. This is despite the crackdown against Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) by imprisoning seven UK SHAC activsits, with the campaign group denying any involvement in the Novartis attacks.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/08/435773.html

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[porolita22]

"Humane and responsible animal research???"

How about trying that "humane and responsible" research on themselves? Right, they won't because it's freaking torture!!!!!!

People are so stupid! How can they say that?!??!! Ugh!

[beka123beka]

Haha!

Love it

Smash HLS!

*Until All Are Free!*

[USSBN734]

@MyLadyAlexis0958 If you want to say that, then it is your privilege. If you have any principles, then you should eschew all medicine for the rest of your life, and all medical technology. You may not have vaccines, antibiotics, surgery of any type, and if you are diabetic, tough shit. You die.

And you have to stop buying food from farms, because farms kill animals that eat their crops.

Otherwise you are nothing but a hypocrite and a moron. Truth hurts.

[vivalabamandhim]

HLS...Shut them down

HLS...Shut them down

Your Job...Your Fault

Your Job...Your Fault

Free The Animal ALF!!!

[MyLadyAlexis0958]

These labs don't understand any other language than violence and they bring it on themselves for being un -reasonable!!! Let them reap what they sow!!!

[tampabayismyhome]

It's funny how they show happy mice. Why don't they show the real stuff. Like the monkey who had its head strapped into a paint can mixer until it had severe brain damage. our the bagel dogs forced to inhale aerosol cleaner until their dead and dissected. Fuck HLS and all the other Mother Fuckers who are involved in this shit. Keep up the good work activist

[HR5337SPORTSHUNTING]

Excellent!

[FecalFiasco]

god, these fuckers should be found and punished. I'd be dead if it wasn't for animal research. animal cruelty is wrong but only when it is actually really bad, a bit of advise from me is that if you are an extremest in any way at all, even agianst afl's cause or a completely different cause you are wrong. the world doesn't allow for absolutes there is always a middle ground that must be found. All extremists very wrong, while the rest of us are only somewhat wrong

[junegrey]

FUCK YOU NOVARTIS AND ALL THE COMPANIES THAT DO ANIMAL TESTING....WE'RE NOT THE OWNER OF THIS WORLD...HUMAN BEINGS SUCKS!

[tamiyaboy100]

awseome stop the fukers go animal liberation front :)