by The conan law, named in that way on social networks in tribute to the dog that accompanied Javier Milei for years and from which the President’s current pets were cloned, is increasingly closer to becoming a reality. The PRO deputy Daniel Arabia presented in Congress a bill that seeks modify the current Animal Abuse Law. propose greater penalties in cases of abuse and cruelty, as well as the imposition of penalties for abandonment.
The project reforms Law 14,346, which dates back to 1954. It seeks to ensure that people who mistreat animals must serve sentences from three months to three years in prison. Until now, the prison sentence ranges from 15 days to one year for all crimes of animal abuse. In addition, it imposes fines of five to 20 times the value of the Minimum Living and Mobile Wage, which according to the latest update is $156,000.
On the other hand, expands the definition of “animal cruelty” and introduce harsher penalties in specific cases.
This will be applied when it is confirmed “permanent weakening of his healthof a sense, an organ, a limb, a physical difficulty or permanent deformation of your body”, as well as “sexual abuse mediating carnal access or impalement” and “torture”.
In these cases, the prison sentence will be from one to five years and the financial fine of 50 to 100 times the minimum wage.
The punishment will be harsher for those who kill animals. The project indicates that they will be punished two to six years in prison and a fine of 100 to 200 times the minimum wage who cause “the death of an animal by inflicting mistreatment, making victims of acts of cruelty or simply because of perversity.”
In addition to establishing differentiated penalties, the folder that Arabia presented in Congress incorporates the crime of abandonment as part of the definition of “cruelty”. These are cases in which a person “leaves an animal under his or her responsibility in a situation of abandonment, exposing it to conditions of helplessness, lack of hygiene, lack of food or obvious health problems.” So far, abandonment is not punished.
“I deeply love animals, I was born and always lived with them. “I was preparing a project to reformulate regulations regarding animal abuse and upon seeing the Lanús video I decided to write this initiative in a week so as not to delay it any longer,” said the legislator in dialogue with Tennessee.
Specifically, Arabia referred to the reprehensible episode that was captured by security cameras in Lanús, where the driver of a school bus deliberately ran over a black dog that was crossing the street. The event unleashed the anger of Milei, who wrote on the social network X that the “miserable” would pay “with tears for what he did.” Finally, the person responsible was arrested.
After the project was disseminated, the Government’s Undersecretary of Press, Javier Lanari, celebrated its launch. “Animal abuse will become punishable in Argentina. The Conan Law represents a great advance in the care of pets. Whoever makes them pays…” he wrote in his X account.
