Deadly Accident: Mass Death because of Sludge

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A Vorarlberg farmer accidentally discharged slurry into a pond, causing the death of a number of fish and crabs. Now he had to answer for it at the regional court Feldkirch. A moment of carelessness – and the consequences were devastating: hundreds of animals had to die after large quantities of slurry had arrived in a pond in the Vorarlberg Oberland. Now the responsible farmer stood before the court. "I should have looked more closely. I was ca…