Accused of criminal negligence, it rejects the blame on a child

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Karim Jean-Gilles when he was arrested in September 2015.

Claudia Berthiaume

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 12:51

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A man Brossard, accused of criminal negligence after her pitbull was disfigured a little girl of seven years has rejected the fault on the child at the time of his trial.

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Karim Jean-Gilles, who defends himself alone, has implied this morning that the little Vanessa Biron could have caused his dog.

“Compared to the event, I don’t know if he was provoked or if it is totally accidental. I don’t know, I haven’t seen the situation. I accept it “, said the 35 year old man, at the courthouse of Longueuil.

A statement that has startled the girl’s parents present to the court.

“I know that there has been no provocation. My wife was present and I know my children. They would not have approached the big dogs, ” said Bernard Biron out of the courtroom.

“[The accused] does not care about others, you might qualify as a sociopath “, he mentioned.

September 20, 2015, the small Vanessa Biron went to the park Marquise, Brossard, in the company of his mother and his younger sister.

The mother of 70 years of Karim Jean-Gilles was also located there with the pit bulls and the bull mastiff to his son, who had no leashes or collars.

For no apparent reason, the pit bulls fled to the small Vanessa, projecting it to the ground, while the bull mastiff was running around them barking aggressively. The mother of Mr. Jean-Gilles has attempted to put an end to the attack by striking the dog with a branch, in vain.

Uncontrollable, the dog has bitten the little girl in the face and dragged over a distance of 3 meters.

Human shield

The mother of Vanessa is thrown over his child as a human shield to protect it.

The assault stopped when Karim Jean-Gilles arrived at the park and grabbed his pit bull by the legs to bring him home, near the park.

Accused of criminal negligence causing bodily harm, a man of 35 years did not testify to explain what happened the 20 September 2015, but it has presented some arguments to the judge Pierre Bélisle this morning.

In a plea terse and sometimes inconsistent, the accused pointed out that his pitbull and bullmastiff have never attacked another human. With the exception of one dog in the neighborhood, they have never bitten a person, has he supported.

Nothing to protect the company

For the Crown, yet it is clear that Mr. Jean-Gilles has been negligent, even if he was not present at the park Marquee at the time of the attack.

According to Me Claudie Gilbert, the accused knew that his dogs could be dangerous, and that they could save themselves from the courtyard to the rear of the residence, what the beasts had done many, many times in the past.

“What he has taken as reasonable measures to ensure that this event does not happen ? Nothing at all, ” insisted the prosecutor.

The judge Bélisle will deliver its verdict Thursday.