Five-year-old child seriously injured by dog that tears off his ear. Mother and her son were hospitalized at Besançon hospital, France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté learned.
The dog involved in the attack suffered a fatal cardiac arrest an hour after the incident, according to firefighters. The dangerousness of this breed of dog of Belgian origin frequently used by law enforcement is often questioned. In 2020, a two- year-old girl died in Charente-Maritime after being bitten by a Malinois.