A Alcobendas court (Madrid) has opened trial against Real Madrid footballer Ferland Mendy, accused of a injury crime after His four dogs escaped from a farm and one of them attacked two other dogs and injured a 17-year-old boy in January 2023.
Mendy is accused of an alleged minor crime of injuries, for which the The Prosecutor’s Office asks for a fine of 1,200 euros, while the private accusation carried out by the injured young man – who was bitten on the left leg and who is represented by the firm 99 Abogados -, requests six months in prison for a crime of serious reckless injuries.
An investigating judge from Alcobendas, the Madrid municipality in which the reported events take place, issued an order on January 7 to open an oral trial, to which EFE has had access and in which he imposed a sentence on the footballer.bail of 7,410 euros for the various compensations requested. This case will be tried in criminal court number 26 in Madrid, although a date for the oral hearing has not yet been set, according to legal sources telling EFE.
The facts investigated date back to January 4, 2023, when four dogs belonging to the Real Madrid side They escaped from their farm on an exclusive residential street in Alcobendas and one of them approached a woman and her dog, a ‘dachshund’, which he bit on the back, causing injuries that would later force him to be put down. as indicated in the document of provisional conclusions of the Prosecutor’s Office.
A young man who was 17 years old at the time came to help the woman and was bitten on the leg. The dog this boy was walking also suffered neck and chest injuries, a German Shorthaired Pointer that required surgery. The four dogs that according to the Prosecutor’s Office escaped from the footballer’s house – two mastiffs, a Turkish kangal and a bulldog – lacked identification microchip and mandatory civil liability insurance and had not been vaccinated against rabies.
The Public Ministry considers that Mendy “violated the required duty of custody and surveillance” regarding large animals by omitting the precautionary rules of “a moderately diligent person” and not checking that the door had been closed after a vehicle entered.
“This caused the dogs to escape and be left on the street without supervision or control for an indeterminate period of time.”generating a situation of concrete danger for people and animals”.
For the facts attributed to him, the Prosecutor’s Office requests compensation of 450 euros for the owner of the dog that ended up dying, 4,970 euros for the young man for the injuries and consequences suffered, which left him several scars, and 240 euros for the owner of the second injured dog, for the veterinary expenses he had to incur. The private prosecution increases the compensation to 20,000 euros for the attacked young man and to 2,500 euros the compensation for the family member who owns the second injured dog.
