Case in Luxembourg: “I still don’t know what my dog ​​died of”

“Now there is no one to say hello to me when I come home.” On August 9 at 4 p.m., Sonia Casais received a call that she still remembers well today: “Your dog Nya was not doing well, she vomited a lot, she died.” On the other end of the phone, the owner of an animal boarding house in Bascharage. As soon as possible, Sonia goes to the veterinary clinic in the center of the country, where the body of her dog had been left. On site, the veterinary assistants make him understand that the crossbreed will be cremated because “all the steps have already been taken and the bill has already been paid”. He would have just been asked to “change the color of the ballot box”.

The next day, the owner of the pension goes to Sonia’s home to return Nya’s personal belongings and to apologize. “She was in tears, and she told me: ‘This has never happened to me before,’” the mother remembers. What Sonia doesn’t know at this moment is that a second dog died on the same day as hers, and that three others will die in the days that follow. Since then, no more contact between the two women: “It’s radio silence on his part.”

Ultimately, four of the five dog owners filed a complaint against the kennel operator and her boyfriend, who was helping her with her activities and who was also present when Nya died. Today, Sonia is still in contact with two of them. According to the first elements of the investigation communicated by the prosecution, one of the five dogs would have ingested “a toxic substance such as rat poison”. The authorities were only able to carry out one autopsy because the operators reportedly had the other four animals cremated. For Sonia, these cremations were requested in order to “conceal certain things”.

“It’s hard for me to grieve, because I still don’t know what really happened with my dog. My children tell me that I only live for Nya,” she confides. She suspects that her dog could have been poisoned unintentionally. Even today, the person who lives in Lamadelaine does not understand why the operator did not simply tell “the truth”.

For the moment the investigation is continuing, Sonia went to the police office this week to make a new statement. If she knows that a judgment will not bring back her Nya, she feels a deep need to know what concretely happened on August 9, and she hopes that the exploiter “will be punished and that her own rights will be taken away. animals too.

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