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Alt Tellin / Roßdorf (dpa) - According to the operator, more than 55,000 piglets and mother sows died in the major fire in the Alt Tellin pig breeding facility (Western Pomerania-Greifswald).
The spokesman for the Agricultural Piglet Breeding Germany (LFD) Holding (Roßdorf), Ralf Beke-Bramkamp, told the German press agency on Thursday.
According to previous lists, there were around 7,000 sows and around 50,000 piglets in Alt Tellin.
Ultimately, only about 1300 animals could be saved.
The cause of the major fire is still unclear.
As a police spokesman said, the investigations of the cause of the fire and the criminal police continue.
"That was a very complex event and the investigation is incredibly difficult," said Andrej Krosse from the police in Anklam.
For example, a drone is to be used again to record the area that has been destroyed and confiscated for the investigation from above.
It is not yet possible to estimate when a result on the cause of the fire can be expected.
The fire broke out on Tuesday morning, spread quickly through ventilation shafts and other connections and ultimately destroyed all the stables.
According to the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald, the fire brigade had first tried to extinguish the flames from the inside, but had to stop because of the danger.
The spread of the flames between the buildings could not be stopped from outside.
Helpers were only able to drive out a few animals.
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With eleven plants, especially in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg, the LFD is one of the largest piglet producers in Germany.
The surviving pigs were brought to Drebkau near Cottbus.
Beke-Bramkamp criticized the actions of militant animal rights activists who are said to have thrown stones at truck drivers and who are said to have followed animal transports with cars.
In Gladau (Saxony-Anhalt), a stable was also broken into.
The operators hired a security service to guard the site.
This should also keep onlookers away.
Alt Tellin was one of the largest piglet rearing facilities in Germany.
The construction was already controversial when it was planned more than ten years ago.
The carcasses of the dead animals lie under the collapsed barn rubble and must be disposed of, the district said.
Beke-Bramkamp explained that this has already started in some areas that the police have released.
In state politics, the big fire led to calls for a general move away from such large-scale systems.
"The measure is not full - it has overflowed," said the leftist's agricultural policy spokesman in the state parliament, Wolfgang Weiß.
The Alt Tellin pig breeding facility should never have been put into operation due to deficiencies in fire protection.
The left called for “land-based animal husbandry within the framework of regional material cycles” and more animal welfare.
"The fire at Old Tellin should - analogous to the nuclear phase-out - be the Fukushima for all megastalls," explained Weiß.
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