Scammers Exploit the Death of Donkey Foal Pleuntje with Fake Donation Campaign: “Grief Is Being Used to Get People to Donate Money”

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The two-week-old donkey foal Pleuntje, who disappeared on Monday evening from Stichting Het Ezelpaleis in Baarle-Nassau, was found dead on Tuesday. According to owner Marlhene Mouws, the animal was shot. She is completely distraught. “It is truly terrible.” Meanwhile, a fake online fundraising campaign is also circulating in which scammers are trying to swindle people out of money.

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A foal has been killed at a donkey sanctuary in Baarle-Nassau. The two-week-old foal was found severely mutilated in the pasture. According to the owner, the donkey was shot. The Het Ezelpaleis Foundation raised the alarm after the foal was no longer in the pasture last night. The animal was searched for repeatedly but without success. "We searched everywhere until half past one last night, but we couldn't find anything," owner Marlhene Mouws …

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The two-week-old donkey foal Pleuntje, who disappeared from the Het Ezelpaleis Foundation in Baarle-Nassau on Monday evening, was found dead in the pasture on Tuesday. The animal was severely mutilated. A day later, the news is the talk of the town. "It is simply absurd," says Menno Muller, a former volunteer at Het Ezelpaleis. "Some people are just really messed up."

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Great sorrow at Het Ezelpaleis in Baarle-Nassau. On Monday evening, Pleun, the donkey just two weeks old, disappeared from the pasture behind the sanctuary. "It is very sad, I am very worried," says a deeply distressed Marlhene Mouws of the donkey sanctuary. "Oh, there I go again with my crying." Marlhene Mouws of Het Ezelpaleis in Baarle-Nassau keeps breaking down on Tuesday morning as she tries to explain what took place in the pastures behin…

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The two-week-old donkey foal Pleuntje disappeared on Monday evening from a pasture belonging to the Het Ezelpaleis Foundation in Baarle-Nassau. The foundation assumes that someone took her. Owner Marlhene Mouws is very worried. "She is still so vulnerable. I am very afraid that she will not survive this."