A man was sentenced Monday in immediate appearance in Bordeaux to 18 months in prison and imprisoned, including for " acts of cruelty " on his little bitch died of his injuries last week, we learned on Monday from the prosecution and a lawyer. He was also sentenced to a life ban on keeping an animal, as claimed by Me Patrice Grillon, lawyer in Paris of the Stéphane Lamart association and the national society for the defense of animals, civil parties.
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The defendant, who disputed the facts and appeared in a state of legal recidivism after a conviction in Dijon in 2016 for violence on the dog of a third party, was also found guilty of " violence against a vulnerable person under the influence of alcohol ", according to the prosecution. The victim, a former homeless man with fragile health placed under curatorship reinforced according to the prosecution, housed the owner of the puppy, " a marginal ", during confinement, in Pessac near Bordeaux, according to Me Grillon.
According to the lawyer, it was this 65-year-old man, " who suffered bullying and violence from the person he had been housing for several weeks ", who alerted the police on the night of May 6. " He was afraid of him and what made him react was to see this dog take repeated blows when she was already weakened after previous violence by her owner in March, which had required an operation ", assured the lawyer. According to him, the animal was the “ scapegoat ” of his master who had relegated him to the balcony “ in his excrement ”.
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According to the Bordeaux prosecutor's office, the police were in fact contacted by the landlord's neighbors, who heard abnormal howls from a dog. The owner of this 5-month-old puppy was drunk when the police arrived, said Grillon. After the arrest of his master, the animal was taken to a veterinary clinic where he died very quickly from a hemorrhage compatible with strokes.