The British Prime Minister is accused of passing the lives of dogs and cats before Afghans, directly threatened by the fundamentalists.
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Boris Johnson decidedly collects the polemics: on the hot seat because of the “partygate”, it is now suspected of having worked personally to facilitate the rescue of a Kabul kennel, when the city fell in the hands of the Taliban In August 2021, and while thousands of Afghans fearing for their lives desperately tried to flee the country.
The operation allowed to transfer to the United Kingdom about 150 dogs and cats as well as the owner of the kennel, Pen Farthing, a veteran of the Royal Navy. During this dramatic period, the British authorities rescued 15,000 Afghans (translators and their families, personalities at risk) but thousands of others – sometimes even binationals, with a British passport, did not have that chance.
Wednesday, January 26, the Westminster Foreign Affairs Committee, which investigates the management of the British withdrawal of Afghanistan, published an email mentioning the supposed role of the Prime Minister in this fairly baroque evacuation – and highly mediated to the Period (Mr. Falthing had multiplied calls using television channels).
On August 25, 2021, an employee of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ZAC Goldsmith, had sent an email to the Foreign Office evacuation team mentioning the kennel of Mr. Falthing. “The Nowzad Charity Association, led by an ex-Royale Navy, has received a lot of advertising and the PM [Prime Minister] has just allowed the evacuation of his teams and animals”.
boris johnson weakened by the “PartyGate”
This message corroborates the allegations of an alert launcher, Raphael Marshall, an employee of the Foreign Office, who delivered to Parliament, end 2021, a sizable testimony on the chaotic British rescue operation. His department had “received instructions from the Prime Minister” to use “a considerable” [transport capacity “to help the animals of the Nowzad association leave the country.
At the time, Boris Johnson had forbidden for the life of dogs and cats in front of Afghans, directly threatened by the Taliban.
The Sky News string and the BBC also reported Messages from Mr. Johnson’s member of Parliamentary Assistant, Trudy Harrisson, who seems to have been ahead, at the end of August 2021, to find an airline friendly to charter An airplane for Mr. Falthing’s animals. Asked by the BBC, Dominic Dyer, an activist of the animal cause that participated in the rescue of the kennel, was astonished that Mr. Johnson refuses to recognize his role: “None of your viewers imagine, I suppose, than me, Pen Farthing and some other volunteers have been able to organize such evacuation alone “.
weakened by the cascading revelations of the “PartyGate”, the Prime Minister again denied any involvement Thursday, January 27. “It’s rhubarb – anyone – he launched funny, the soldiers have always given priority to human beings and it was the right thing to do.” On Twitter, Pen Farthing assured “100%” had “no direct contact” with Mr. Johnson.