Animal rights activists scuffled with police in Alcorcon (Spain) as they took away the dog belonging to the first person to contract the virus outside of Africa – Spanish nursing assistant, Teresa Romero.
A social media campaign had been launched earlier to persuade authorities in Spain to spare the dog with almost 400,000 people signing the petition to save the victim’s dog – Excalibur.
Demonstrators chanted “assassins” and threw themselves on the ground as the police van left. Madrid regional government later revealed that the mix-breed dog had been sedated, euthanized and incinerated.