Big cars with sparkling rims, shiny gold chains, designer glasses.
In the paraphernalia of rappers and their clips, there are also dogs.
Category, if possible.
At Leto, rising star of the Porte de Saint-Ouen in Paris (17th), the animal is called Captain, he is an 11-month-old American staff and he was withdrawn on Friday at the end of the day at the request of Animal protection action.
The association lodged a complaint with the 15th district police station for voluntary abandonment and act of cruelty to an animal.
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Captain was then on Leto's brother's one-square-meter balcony, in a residence at the Porte de Brancion (15th).
It was residents who warned the association, moved to see the dog day and night on the balcony.
At the foot of this drab residence, a resident remembers: “It happened several times to hear this dog howling at death, it was heart-breaking.
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“All the neighbors heard her cry daily, it had been going on since last September,” continues Anne-Claire Chauvancy, president of Action protection Animale.
This dog "was a foil"
This puppy born in March first made appearances in rap music videos before being put away.
“It was a foil as it can be in these clips, continues Anne-Claire Chauvancy.
When he no longer needed it, he no longer took care of it.
We rarely know how these animals are treated after these shootings.
This does not mean that it is a generality.
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Paris (15th).
Captain, 11 months old, lived night and day on a one-square-meter balcony.
Arriving at the foot of the building, the associations joined by a police patrol discovered excrement directly above the balcony.
A finding that suggests that rather than taking it out to do its business, the occupants of the apartment preferred to pass the jet so that everything goes through the evacuation of rainwater.
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"On the unsanitary balcony, urine and excrement litter the ground, while Captain, the young dog, jumps on the bay windows made opaque by the dirt", describes Anne-Claire Chauvancy.
"It's a very muscular Staff who needs to work out"
The rapper's brother admitted that Captain was left here by Leto.
“When we opened the door to him, he was excited at the idea of going out,” continues the head of the association.
It is a very muscular Staff who needs to work out.
»No other trace of mistreatment was detected and the papers were not found, there is nothing to tell if this puppy has already been examined by a veterinarian.
As of Friday evening, Captain was entrusted to a refuge while waiting for a court decision to be rendered.
"The tenant of the accommodation and the owner of the dog are summoned to explain themselves", indicates a police source.
Leto faces two years in prison and a 30,000 euro fine.
This young rapper started to make a name for himself in the rap world in 2014 with the group PSO Thug, a reference to his Porte-de-Saint-Ouen neighborhood.
Since he started solo, he has notably shared the microphone with Ninho, a rapper from Essonne, or stars like Booba and Soprano.
We tried to reach him on various social networks but Leto did not respond to our requests.
