Heroic police bloodhound named Bruno killed by food laced with nails, sparking outrage in Italy
The horrible murder of a police blood, which helped find nine people during his sniff-dog career, indignant the Italians and sparked a criminal investigation to find his killers.
Bruno, a 7 year old child bloodhoundWas found dead Friday morning in his hangar in the south of Taranto. His trainer, Arcangelo Caressa, said that he had been fed by pieces of dog food with nails.
In a social media position on Tuesday, Caressa urged the police to “find the killers before me”.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who was photographed with Bruno after one of his heroic rescues, said on social networks that his massacre was “vile, loose, unacceptable”.
The legislative Michael Vittoria Brambilla, a longtime activist for animal rights, filed a criminal complaint with prosecutors under a new law that she helped to push the sanctions to anyone who kills or mistreats an animal.
The editor -in -chief of Il Giornale Daily, Vittorio Feltri, expressed his indignation, saying that Bruno had done more civic in Italy than most citizens.
Caressa said he told prosecutors that he suspected that he was the ultimate target of Bruno’s killers, and that Bruno was killed “to reach me”. He quoted his efforts to save dogs that were used for illegal dog fights, saying that he had already received threats for his work. He said he had given police investigators the names of two people he suspected.
He told local media that he had received death threats in the weeks preceding Bruno’s death, the BBC reported.
“It was not a random gesture. They want me to withdraw. But I will never give in. It is a vile attack, made for money and revenge,” he told the Corriere della will be.
In a tribute to Bruno published on Facebook, Caressa wrote: “Maybe you stir the tail among the stars, or maybe you look at us in silence, with these kind eyes that said everything without needing words.”
“You weren’t just a dog,” he added. “You were my faithful shadow, my strength in dark moments, the good heart rate of the world.”
The new animal protection law, known as Brambilla’s law, entered into force on July 1 and calls up to four years in prison and a fine of 60,000 euros (around $ 70,000), the most rigid sanctions applied if the ill -treatment is committed to children or is filmed and disseminated online.
Feltri said that the sentence should be more than four years, saying that animals must be respected “especially when he behaves heroically” like Bruno.
Caressa said that during his career, Bruno had found five people alive during rescues and had located the bodies of four deceased, but whose bodies were able to return to their loved ones.
