Donkey dies after being sat on by an overweight man in Spanish Nativity scene

An overweight man has been charged with animal abuse in southern Spain after a young donkey died three days after he sat on it at an outdoor Nativity scene.

The five-month-old donkey named Platero was on display along with other animals in the centre of the town of Lucena in Spain's Andalucia region, as part of the town's annual Christmas celebrations.





But on December 10, a man weighing nearly 150 kilograms climbed into the donkey's pen and sat on the animal's back to have his picture taken, two animal rights groups, Adebo and Circulo Animalista de Podemos Lucena, said in a statement.

A photo widely circulating on social media showed the portly man, who wore a blue shirt and green pants, grinning as he posed on the donkey with one hand on his hip and the other hanging on to the wooden fence that was meant to keep him out.


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