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Rottweiler (symbolic image): A passerby discovered the disfigured corpse
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For many people, a run on Sunday morning is part of their weekend routine. For a jogger in Italy, this weekend's excursion ended fatally: three Rottweilers bitten the 50-year-old man to death. The animals apparently attacked him in a park in the small town of Manziana near Rome. A passerby discovered the disfigured body in the morning, the police said. All help came too late. It is believed that the dogs had escaped from a nearby house.
After the victim was discovered, the Rottweilers were stunned, caught and taken to a kennel. It is up to the authorities to decide what to do next with them. The owner must at least expect a report for failure to supervise.
Bremen is planning a test for dog owners
Dangerous bite attacks by Rottweilers occur again and again. At the beginning of February, for example, a woman in Schallstadt (Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district) was attacked and seriously injured by four Rottweilers. The 48-year-old had just wanted to leave a property. The attack occurred in a walled courtyard where the animals were running around. Two residential buildings share this courtyard. The woman was a guest in the residential building that does not belong to the dog's owner. The dog owner noticed the attack and was able to separate his animals from the woman. She was taken to the hospital.
In Austria, a woman died after a Rottweiler attack in October 2023. According to police, the dog ran out of a garden and bit the 52-year-old and two grandchildren aged two and seven. The children survived with serious injuries.
In Bremen, dog owners will have to take a so-called expertise test in the future. Bremen's Interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer (SPD) announced this in October last year. This was also preceded by an attack: one broke loose in a meadow and bit a six-year-old girl in the head. The child was taken to hospital seriously injured.
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