A court bailiff is reported by an animal welfare organization for animal abuse during the eviction process of an elderly couple in Petroupoli.
According to the complaint from the animal welfare organization, the court bailiff abused the dog twice in his effort to remove the elderly couple from their home in Petroupoli.
The family’s lawyer, Katerina Fragaki, told Open that the family’s house in Petroupoli is their primary residence and was put up for auction for 6,000 euros.
“The house has gone to auction; unfortunately, it was lost, the difference in the settlement was only 6,000 euros,” said the lawyer, noting that the family had made an effort and gathered 25,000 euros.
“However, the company insisted that they needed to receive 31,000 euros, and they put the house up for auction,” she said, emphasizing that the elderly man living there with his wife had just undergone heart surgery.
“We managed to get an extension,” she highlighted, pointing out that the company has already arranged for the property to be purchased by a short-term rental company.
“However, in order to force the family out of the house, they abused the family’s dog twice. We do not know who, but certainly someone from the auction. Rodenticide was found in the dog’s mouth after the eviction process was stopped due to intervention from neighbors. They took the dog to the vet and found rodenticide in its mouth,” the lawyer reported. It is a shepherd dog, 10 years old, large,” she noted.