Alsace: a 18 month bitten to death by a dog – Europe1

A little boy of 18 months died Friday, bitten to death by a dog in Epfig (Bas-Rhin), a judicial source said. By early afternoon, the dog, who belong to the family and was attached, according to the first elements of the investigation, tackled the little boy who did not survive.

Euthanasia. the mayor of the commune, Jean-Claude Mandry, issued an order to euthanize the dog, he said. According to local press, it would be an American Staffordshire Terrier. The gendarmes, who went there, and the floor of Colmar, could not give any indication in the immediate future, having just investigation to be opened.

12 children killed in 16 years . In 16 years, 24 people were killed by dogs, including 12 children, often by family dogs. In January 2008, a boy of two and a half years and was killed by the family Rottweiler in Charnay (Rhone). A year later, in the village of Grand Lodges (Marne), near Chalons-en-Champagne is a six year old girl who succumbed to two great danes family. In 2010, in Eure-et-Loir, a 18 month old baby was killed by malinois shepherd of his parents, while his mother had gone to bring his eldest to school. And in 2013, at the Meeting, a 7 year old boy was killed in the garden of his house in Bois-de-Nèfles.

The dogs crossbred and that approximate Staffordshire races or Pitbull Mastiff and Tosa, attack dogs are considered “dangerous.” The law prohibits selling them, buying them, to give them and import them, and compels sterilize and muzzle. It is forbidden to take them to transport, public places or places open to the public and remain with them in the common areas of an apartment building.

Dogs of category 1 and 2 . The dogs’ guard and defense, “breed Staffordshire, Rottweilers and Tosa, not crossbred, may them however access to public transportation and public places, but muzzled and leashed. The detention of dogs Category 1 and 2 shall be prohibited to minors, adults in guardianship, to persons who have been sentenced to imprisonment for a crime. Violation of these rules incurs 6 months imprisonment and 15,000 euros fine. In case of danger “serious and immediate” and following the opinion of a veterinarian, the dog may be euthanized. of fatal assaults responsible dog owners liable without aggravating circumstances, up to five years imprisonment and a 75,000 euro fine.