Animal-rights militancy exported to US and Europe

摘要

Some US and European animal-rights activists are adopting the illegal tactics of extreme UK groups, say police and groups monitoring protest activity. They note that just as incidents seem to be declining in Britain, they are rising elsewhere. "When it comes to animal-rights extremism, there is a body of knowledge in the United Kingdom," says a spokesman for the UK police's National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit, set up in 2004 to tackle illegal animal-rights activity. He says the UK scene has links with the United States and that "there has been an increase in extremist activity on mainland Europe directly related to that in Britain."