Much factory manager Erlend Beltman from Plukon does not want to say about it. “I am working on completely different things, such as arranging things to get everything working again. We are especially happy that no personal accidents have occurred.”
The company was currently fire closed. The eight trucks were outside at the back of the company. The fact that the fire started there soon led in the village that arson was thought of.
‘Everything indicates arson’
“Everything indicates that,” Beltman wants to say about that. Then there is also the logo of Animal Liberation Front that has been sprayed on a waste bin with fresh paint. “You have seen the paint,” he says.
The animal activists are known to stand up for animal rights with hard actions. Plukon slaughter around 300,000 chickens in Oosterblokker every day. The company, which is located in several places in the Netherlands and abroad, has had to deal with Protests of animal welfare organizations. Animal Liberation Front has not claimed the fire.