Beaten to death for "chewing on the battery of his electronic cigarette".
It is for this surrealistic reason that a small 8 month old dog died last night, massacred by its young owner, to the chagrin of the emergency police crew, called in to intervene.
This Thursday, the "master" of the puppy, a 22-year-old man, is in custody at the 15th century police station.
Tonight he was still there.
It is 12:30 am this Thursday when a resident of rue Oscar Roty, a small thoroughfare in the Boucicaut district, perpendicular to rue de Lourmel (15th arrondissement), calls Police emergency.
An act of barbarism
From his balcony, he sees a man, also on his balcony, beating a dog to death.
The dog in question is a young beagle, 8 months old.
This hunting dog, originally from England, is a popular pet especially because of its small size but also for its kindness.
When the officials arrived, the torturer evaporated, but before that he lowered the body of the small animal and tied it to a fence on the descent of the parking lot of the building, at the level of N ° 1 of the street. .
The puppy is dying, blood filling his muzzle.
The police join a veterinarian who can only note the death.
The master is then sought.
After hearing local residents, the man is found and arrested then brought back to the police station in rue de Vaugirard (15th century).
The neighbors heard the screams
During their neighborhood survey, a local resident told them "to have heard the puppy bark to death for twenty minutes".
Another neighbor, worried, alerted by the abuse of this baby animal freshly arrived in the building, recorded with his smartphone the killing: "We hear the howls of the guy on his dog and the agony of the puppy," says , frozen, a witness.
The beagle's body was returned to the vet.
“A radio was made first.
An autopsy will be performed, details a source close to the case.
The vet has already had a first diagnosis.
The puppy has had a broken neck.
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The dog had chewed on an electronic cigarette battery
At the end of the afternoon, the alleged torturer was interviewed.
This “young man, without a profession, tried to clear his customs,” this source explains.
He told investigators that he had just bought the little dog on Le Bon coin and that the animal had irritated him by chewing on the battery of his electronic cigarette ”.
The man risks up to two years imprisonment and a € 30,000 fine according to article 521-1.
Since 2017, the parliament, under pressure from animal rights associations, has legislated in favor of animals, in particular to prevent acts of cruelty, mistreatment, killing and clarified its legal status.
In the past, dogs were considered "movable property", just like a table or a car!
It is only since 1976 that the dog is considered as a "sensitive being".
Thursday evening, the Stéphane Lamart Foundation, an essential association for the defense of animals, but also for the fight and fight to promote their rights, was warned of the death of the little beagle from the 15th arrondissement. “We are going to take civil action in this case, announces Stéphane Lamart. We cannot tolerate such cases of atrocity and suffering ”.