POLICE were last night investigating an alleged hate campaign by animal rights activists involving a North Wales man. Llanberis company Euro/DPC said it was forced to step up security claiming extremists vandalised the managing director's car. The protesters also allegedly scrawled graffiti on his house in the middle of the night. The company said the attack happened after its phone number and address was posted on an animal rights website along with claims of links with long-standing saboteurs' target Huntingdon Life Sciences. The Gwynedd company, which employs 400 people, supplies Huntington with products used to detect disease, as well as the NHS and pathology labs. North Wales police were investigating the incident and said a response plan was put in place to combat the threat of any future attacks. The managing director, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution, said: "They poured paint stripper over my car at 2am - by the time I saw it at 7am it had been stripped down to bare metal in many places. "They also sprayed graffiti on the garage door and slashed my tyres. "But the financial aspect of that is neither here nor there. My concern is for the safety of my wife and my teenage children. "While there was no bodily damage to any member of my family, it was the attempt to cause psychological damage. "These people are campaigning because they are trying to stop cruelty to animals, but they perform cruelty through their activities. It is perverse to me. "We have had two demonstrations outside the company, we have had foul and abusive phone calls to the receptionists and get the occasional letter. "Some of the letters are quite rational but others are anonymous and threatening. "I recognise the right of the campaign to peaceful protest, but when some choose to go beyond that I have difficulty with the whole campaign and it devalues it." He said Euro/DPC tightened security since the attacks. "We have had to lock down the facility much tighter than we thought we would ever have to in reaction and response to this campaign," he said. "As long as it is running, we are a target." Extremists want 50 named companies to sever links with English firm Huntingdon Life Sciences, which admits testing on animals. Caernarfon-based superintendent Mark Jones, deputy divisional commander of the police's west division, said: "We have a response plan in place which aims to ensure that the rule of law and the Queen's peace are maintained." | 
