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A French court on Thursday, June 11, convicted a man of involuntary manslaughter after the pit bull he had illegally imported and trained to bite mauled to death his pregnant girlfriend.
He got a pitbull because it was banned because he wanted a "dangerous" dog he could train to be dangerous.
Any dog can be "trained to bite" and a bunch of dogs are bigger with stronger bites, he just wanted the banned one.
I was gonna make the same comment but you beat me to it. Article title kinda buries the lede here, the "trained to bite" part seems so much more incriminating to me.
It being a pitbull is actually relevant this time, just not as relevant that he intentionally made it likely to bite...
Like, you don't train a dog to do that, you abuse it to do that.
People like that will always get what they believe is the most dangerous breed. If you try to ban a dog breed (a ridiculous concept) shitty owners will easily circumvent it and raise dangerous dogs that are that breed or essentially are.
It makes it a self-fufilling prophecy.
But people always pick on breeds instead of something like a weight limit. No dog over X pounds being allowed to breed would actually do something, but no one ever talks about that.
owners will easily circumvent it and raise dangerous dogs that are that breed or essentially are.
French laws banned a hand full of breeds entirely, and heavily restricted a whole host of others, specifically including all breeds that look like the banned ones. If you want a category 2 dog, it needs to be registered, insured, you need to show yourself capable and it need to be muzzled at all time in public.
You can't just "get a similar dog", because that's also restricted. Not that this guy would ever clear the legal requirements anyway.
He gets a suspended 4 year sentence while the dog will be most likely euthanized. Disgusting.
~~Leopards ate my face~~ Dogs ate my pregnant gf
~~Well done, France~~
Edit:
Ellul received a suspended four-year sentence
Yep that's France alright.
Pro tip: if you want to kill someone in France, even as a nobody, you just need to get a hunting license then you can shoot people even IN THE MIDDLE OF A TOWN. Just make sure to claim it was a wild boar and bob's your uncle.
Just hit them with a car anywhere and cops won't even bother to arrest.