Deputy minister jeered in Serres by livestock farmers 

Deputy Minister of Rural Development, Ioannis Andrianos, was booed connected Saturday by livestock farmers who had gathered extracurricular a league centre successful Serres, bluish Greece, to protestation the nonaccomplishment of hundreds of thousands of sheep and goats owed to smallpox pox. 

Arriving astatine Serexpo, Andrianos had a tense dialog with some of the protesters which rapidly escalated successful jeers. “You are incapable of providing solutions. You are not wanted [here]. Get up and leave,” they shouted astatine the minister.

Some farmers threw java and water bottles to Andrianos who was whisked distant by constabulary officers.

Sheep farmers are successful despair successful Thessaly and Thrace arsenic sheep pox is destroying their flocks, with hundreds of thousands culled to stop the spread of the disease. 

Dimitris Moschos, president of the Hellenic Livestock Association (SEK), said connected Saturday that economical losses from the spread of small pox successful sheep and goats are estimated astatine much than 350 cardinal euros successful the past 14 months.