Overview
- The court sentenced the dog’s owner on June 10, 2026 to eight months in prison and ordered a permanent ban on owning animals.
- Police records show the man brought the five-year-old malinois to the Loiret fourrière on July 8, 2025 claiming he had found her, but the animal was taken in severely undernourished.
- The fourrière’s online notice prompted private tips from internet users who identified the dog as the owner’s, leading police to confront him and to his admission that he lied, citing depression.
- The owner had earlier ignored a CRPC summons and did not appear at the June hearing, and court documents note he already had a criminal record for other offences.
- Sybelle was transferred to a partner refuge three weeks after intake, has since been adopted, and the fourrière says it will keep pursuing prosecutions to discourage summer abandonments.