In September, Dutch daily De Telegraaf warned that an extreme animal
rights group had move its operations to the Netherlands to target
Euronext Amsterdam (the Dutch branch of NYSE Euronext exchange group),
other financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies and shops that
sell fur.
Meanwhile, the ‘NYSE Euronext bomb squad’ have claimed on an animal
rights website that it placed six explosives under two cars belonging
to a former NYSE Euronext employee in Hilversum, the Netherlands last
week. The cars burnt out completely, but no-one was hurt.
Euronext deals in shares from a company called Huntingdon Life
Sciences, which has the world’s largest animal laboratory. In the
United Kingdom, courts have restricted the activities of the Stop
Huntington Animal Cruelty group (SHAC) using terrorism legislation.
As a result the antivivisection group has moved its activities to the
Netherlands. SHAC has been active since 1999 and is notorious for its
radical methods. Once, it even went as far as to dig up the body of a
laboratory animal breeder’s mother-in-law.
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