Local residents raised the alarm.
This Saturday at the end of the afternoon, a 3-year-old Malinois shepherd was found dead in a car, in Carrières-sous-Poissy (Yvelines).
The vehicle was parked in full sun, rue d'Andrésy, near the Domaine de Ronceray, a group of buildings located near the banks of the Seine.
The animal, named Pixel, belonged… to a dog handler, residing in the neighborhood.
According to our information, he used to leave his dog in the car, which served as a doghouse.
This Saturday evening, the hearing of this man was still in progress, entrusted to the police of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
The prosecutor's office of Versailles must decide during the course of the evening on the legal follow-up that it intends to give to the case.
The dog was allegedly the victim of “habitual abuse”
Alerted around 5:30 p.m. by a witness who had just noticed the presence of an inanimate dog in the vehicle, the police were forced to break a window to recover the animal.
Unfortunately, they couldn't do anything to save him: he had succumbed to the heat.
“Investigations are still ongoing but the first elements tend to prove that it is a habitual mistreatment, not an isolated fact”, summarizes a police source.
Eddy Aït, the mayor (SE) of Carrières-sous-Poissy, specifies, this Saturday evening, that the city is preparing to file a complaint for “negligence having led to the death of an animal”.
"A dog locked in a car parked in the sun at a temperature of 20 degrees can feel bad in just ten minutes and risk his life after barely twenty minutes", comments the elected official, whose municipality is a signatory of the charter L214 “A city for animals”.
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Last March, the municipal police of Carrières-sous-Poissy, which has a unit specializing in the capture of dogs, intervened in Chanteloup-les-Vignes, to recover a dog and her eight puppies who had been parked without water. and without electricity in the technical room of a building.