'Protectora' animal charity wants new start for Torremolinos shelter

The Malaga animal shelter and rescue charity 'La Sociedad Protectora de Animales' has put forward a proposal to Torremolinos town hall to try and end at last the bizarre situation where public land is still registered in the name of another animal charity whose former head, Carmen Marín, is in prison for cruelty to animals and falsification of paperwork.

The disgraced Parque Animal charity, whose name is also still on a bar in the council's showground which is said to have been illegally sublet to a private individual, passed the operation of the animal refuge it ran to a third party, Home Animales (previously Canes) in 2012. This was just after the scandal of its mistreatment of animals had broken. The lease on the council-owned land is still in Parque Animal's name.

The Malaga 'Sociedad Protectora de Animales' wants Torremolinos council to move to set up a fully operating animal rescue charitable operation and not merely a dog and cat kennels, which it claims the current operation is. The new charity would be managed by a joint board of several animal welfare charities and the previous shareholders in Parque Animal who had reported the original crimes to police.