Police checks see one in six Thessaloniki dog owners fined

[Handout/Hellenic Police]

Authorities successful Thessaloniki person carried retired scores of checks to guarantee canine owners are obeying favored information regulations and imposed thousands of euros successful fines, constabulary said Thursday.

A constabulary statement said officers accompanied by municipal officials stopped 128 canine owners successful March successful cardinal Thessaloniki arsenic well arsenic successful Kordelio, Evosmos, Neapoli, Sykees, Ambelokipi, Menemeni, Pylaia, Hortiatis and Kalamaria.

Fines of €300 were imposed connected six radical for failing to tag their dogs, 12 for letting their pets disconnected the leash, three for not preventing their animals from leaving their properties oregon causing harm oregon damage. One much idiosyncratic was fined €500 due to the fact that their canine was causing a disturbance by barking.

The constabulary statement said akin checks would beryllium expanded to screen the astir fashionable areas where radical walk their dogs.