The results of the DNA tests unveiled Tuesday, November 3 indicate Curtis, Christophe Ellul's dog, as responsible for the death of the young Elisa Pilarski.

She was found dead in 2019 after a walk in the forest of Retz, in the Aisne.

"Curtis is innocent. He would never have killed Elisa": the companion of Elisa Pilarski took up this Tuesday the defense of his dog, however designated by DNA tests as being responsible for the death of the young pregnant woman in 2019. Speaking for the first time at a press conference in Bordeaux alongside his lawyer, Christophe Ellul assured that his dog had "entered France in good standing with a European passport, with all his vaccines" and had not "never had aggression towards me, towards Elisa, towards children".

"Curtis was never mean, he loved Elisa, he was not aggressive," he insisted, even assuring that the young woman, found dead in a forest in the Aisne, "had a merger with him because she had fallen in love ".

A dog "who has never taken a bite"

Last week, the prosecution said that the expertises tended "to demonstrate the exclusive involvement of the dog Curtis in the bites that led to the death" of the young woman, found dead near a hunt with hounds.

According to the prosecution, the animal, an "American Pitbull Terrier, coming from a breeding in the Netherlands and illegally introduced into France by its purchaser", has "been the subject of biting training, a form of training. banned in France and which may result from acts of animal abuse ", and" of such a nature as to abolish any capacity for control or discernment "in animals.

But according to Christophe Ellul, "Curtis never took a bite".

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Elisa Pilarski, aged 29 and pregnant, was found dead in the forest of Retz.

According to the autopsy, the cause of death was "a hemorrhage following several bites".

To identify the responsible animal (s), genetic samples were taken from 67 dogs: the five American Staffordshires of Elisa Pilarski and Christophe Ellul, and 62 others from the Rallye La Passion association, organizer of the hunt with hounds.