Animal rights activists are calling for a complete ban on horse-drawn carriages in Rome after a video emerged of a horse that had collapsed in the street.
The animal had slipped on a manhole cover, according to reports, but the carriage driver saw no need to seek medical attention.
“We find the behaviour of the driver unacceptable, who, although invited by passers-by to visit a vet, continued his journey as if nothing had happened in the direction of Piazza di Spagna,” Rinaldo Sidoli, a member of animal and environmental activist group Alleanza Popolare Ecologista, wrote in a Facebook post accompanying the video.
