10th June, Oosterblokker Netherlands.
via: https://indymedia.nl/node/55854
[editor’s note: whilst there has been no claim of responsibility, photos from the scene show an ALF logo spray painted on one of the machines. This of course does not mean the ALF claimed it, but the indymedia writer did make an educated guess.]
“In early hours of 10th June 2025 the Animal Liberation Front carried out an attack on Slaughterhouse Plukon in Oosterblokker, Netherlands. 9 chicken transportation trucks and one van were completely burned down.
Factory manager Erlend Beltman reports to De Telegraaf (media) that he suspects arson and points to a freshly sprayed logo of the radical action group Animal Liberation Front (ALF) on the dumpster next to the fire.
The damage is estimated at more than 2 million euros. Plukon said they are investigating how they can restore logistics and limit the impact on their transportation and killing of chickens. At the time of the fire, the site was deserted.
According to the fire brigade, an explosion of the oxygen tanks could have led to a much larger “disaster”. Due to the smoke development and possible presence of harmful substances, the forensic police investigation couldn’t start until the next day.
In the past, activists have made pictures of the packed chickens inside the trucks in front of this slaughterhouse adressing the dreadful conditions of the chickens. Plukon and the organising action group claimed to work together?! The slaughterhouse tries to justify their beheading of 300.000 chickens each day, as a “transparent piece of the foodchain”.
More interesting information about the oxygen tanks (used for packaging):
According to the North Holland North Safety Region, immediate efforts were made to limit risks. There were tanks with liquid oxygen on the site. “Those oxygen tanks could have exploded and this oxygen could have acted as a large fire accelerant,” duty officer Ron Zuiderwijk told the Noordhollands Dagblad on Sunday morning.
In response to questions from Streekomroep West-Friesland, the Safety Region does not address the possible risk of explosion. “Although the distance from the trucks to the tanks with liquid oxygen was still quite large, keeping these tanks wet and cooling was given priority. Immediate efforts were also made to cool the façade of the building to prevent overtopping from the burning trucks. In addition, we kept trucks wet nearby to limit the damage as much as possible,” explains a spokesperson.
The tanks with liquid oxygen have a special design with all kinds of safety features to prevent them from collapsing, the spokesperson further explains. “Even under extreme conditions. Yet we do not take any risks in these kinds of incidents. In this case, this meant, among other things, that we actively cooled the oxygen tanks. Oxygen is not a flammable substance, but it strongly strengthens fire when it is released.”
All info is gathered from dutch media and we tried to write/paste everything objectively to not put any unwanted words onto the comrades carrying out the attack (there has not been a claim or communique found on the internet that refers to this specifc action). The police remains clueless, repeatedly asking neighbors to snitch if they saw or recorded something that night.
Spread the word, spread the fire.”
