A resident of a building in Grigny (Essonne) killed an attack dog on Sunday who was attacking four young women in a neighboring apartment, a police source told AFP on Tuesday August 16.
Sunday around 3:00 p.m., this man heard “
cries of distress
” coming from a neighboring apartment.
Upon entering, he finds that four women are injured and that an American Staffordshire Terrier type dog is out of control, detailed the same source.
Unable to calm him down, the neighbor grabbed a knife and "
cut the animal's throat
", according to the same source.
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The young women, born in 1999 and 2003, are injured for one in the left arm, for the other in the right hand and left arm, for the third in the lip, according to this source.
The most seriously affected was bitten on the breast and had a torn finger.
All of them were taken to the hospital, without vital prognosis.
The stabber was not injured by the dog.
The amstaff "
lived with the girlfriend of the owner
" of the animal, absent at the time of the facts, it was specified from the same source.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the Juvisy-sur-Orge police station, according to another police source.