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Animal-rights activists wreak havoc in Milan laboratory
Nature

Activists occupied an animal facility at the University of Milan, Italy, at the weekend, releasing mice and rabbits and mixing up cage labels to confuse experimental protocols. Researchers at the university say that it will take years to recover their work.

Many of the animals at the facility are genetic models for psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.

Five activists entered laboratories in the university’s pharmacology department on Saturday morning. The lack of signs of a break-in suggests that the activists may have used an illegally acquired electronic card, says pharmacologist Francesca Guidobono-Cavalchini, who works there.

Michela Matteoli, a neurobiologist who works on autism and other disorders and lost most of her own research in the attack, says that she found some research students crying in the disrupted facility on Monday morning. University says loss of animals and lab records may ruin years of work on psychiatric diseases.

Il y a un mot pour qualifier la racaille gauchiste qui pose ce genre de geste: TERRORISTE. Mais ça, Guy A. Lepagne n’en parlera pas durant son émission…