The forest of Retz where Elisa Pilarski was killed.

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  • Expertises tend to show that the dog Curtis is solely responsible for the death of Elisa Pilarski.

  • The victim's former companion and owner of Curits, for his part, claims that his dog is innocent.

  • His words were denounced by the lawyer for Elisa's family and by that of the hunting company.

A year ago, Elisa Pilarski died in a forest in the Aisne after being attacked by a dog.

The results of DNA examinations, received last week, now tend to point to the dog of the victim's companion, Curtis, as solely responsible for his death.

Facts that its owner cannot admit, assuring that "Curtis is innocent".

But the arguments put forward by the man do not pass at all on the side of the family of Elisa Pilarski as on the side of the venery society whose dogs had been implicated.

“Curtis is innocent.

He would never have killed Elisa ”, hammered Christophe Ellul during a press conference visio in the presence of his lawyer, Tuesday.

In particular, he questioned the DNA analyzes and the report of the veterinarians mandated by the justice system to study the behavior of his dog.

Christophe Ellul also insisted on the responsibility of the hunting pack of the hunting society present in the woods on the day of the tragedy.

“It's in the file.

Five dogs are missing which have disappeared […], the five dogs are dead and were buried in the forest, but there is no death certificate, ”said Elisa Pilarski's companion.

"This press conference is unbearable"

Guillaume Demarcq, the lawyer of the company of venery, qualified this affirmation of "fabricating" with our colleagues of France 3. The lawyer was also astonished that Christophe Ellul calls into question the behavioral expertises, since "Took part, he and his lawyer", declares Master Demarcq, adding that the venery society reserves the right to file a defamation complaint.

Elisa Pilarski's family also shouted out indignation through the voice of her lawyer.

She describes as “unbearable” and “indecent” a “press conference organized to rewrite history.

"" The first reaction is to say it's awful.

By giving absolutely sordid details which are left to graze, it's terrifying ”, declared Master Caty Richard to our colleagues at RTL.

On the mention of the victim's scalp by Christophe Ellul during his press conference, the lawyer insists: “Indeed, Elisa had her scalp torn off.

On that scalp, inside that scalp, there's only one DNA, and one, Curtis's.

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“At this stage of the investigation, the expertises converge and tend to demonstrate the exclusive involvement of the dog Curtis in the bites which led to the death of Mrs. Pilarski, his mistress, without any element allowing to question the dogs belonging to the venery society ”, declared the public prosecutor of Soissons on Tuesday 3 November.

In the process, Alexandre Novion, Christophe Ellul's lawyer, indicated that he would ask either for additional expertise or for a second opinion.

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