Diesel (dog)
Diesel (died on November 18, 2015 in Saint-Denis ) was a French police dog from the Research Assistance Intervention Dissuasion (RAID) special unit . The Belgian shepherd , used as an explosives detection dog , was killed during an anti-terrorist operation in Saint Denis and subsequently turned into a net phenomenon .
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During the investigation into the terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris , an apartment in the Parisian Banlieue Saint Denis was to be searched on November 18, 2015 . When the RAID tried to storm the apartment, there was a gun battle. Abdelhamid Abaaoud , the alleged mastermind behind the terrorist attacks, died during the operation. Three men who were also in the home were then arrested. While the operation was still going on, the Police nationale reported at 10:48 am that the seven-year-old police dog Diesel had been killed and uploaded a photo on Facebook . The picture went viral on Facebook and Twitter . Within a very short time it was divided 170,000 times. In France, the hashtags #JeSuisDiesel (German: “I am Diesel”) and #JeSuisChien (German: “I am a dog”), based on #JeSuisCharlie , became the top of the most popular hashtags within an hour. In view of the human victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris, however, the deal also met with criticism. On the other hand, the singer Amaury Vassili and the animal welfare organization PETA made positive comments . The latter emphasized that "all lives count".
Posthumously, the bitch received the Dickin Medal , a British award for animals that have made service in war or police operations. This award is only given to animals outside the UK in exceptional circumstances.
As a token of solidarity, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokolzew gave his French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve a two-month-old German shepherd puppy named Dobrinja. The German Shepherd Dog was named after the Russian hero figure Dobrynja Nikititsch .
Individual evidence
- ^ The report: Dead in anti-terror raid in a Paris suburb. Spiegel Online , November 18, 2015, accessed March 30, 2016 .
- ↑ #JeSuisChien: Why France is mourning a police dog. Spiegel Online , November 18, 2015, accessed March 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Teresa Nauber: This is how police dogs fight terrorism like Diesel. Welt.de , November 18, 2015, accessed March 30, 2016 .
- ^ Dickin Medal for Diesel the police dog killed in Paris attacks raid. BBC , December 28, 2015, accessed March 30, 2016 .
- ↑ After police dog dies: Russia gives Paris a puppy. N24.de , November 21, 2015, accessed March 30, 2016 .