Elisa Pilarski, a 29-year-old woman six months pregnant with a small Enzo, was killed by dogs in the forest of Retz in Aisne, on Saturday November 16, while she was walking hers in a sector where a hunt was organized.
Two months after the fact, the results of the autopsy of his body were given by the prosecutor of Soissons. A careful analysis which made it possible to specify that the death had taken place between 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m., while confirming that the young woman had indeed died from the bites of several dogs: “The death originated from a hemorrhage consecutive to several bites of dogs with upper and lower limbs as well as the head, some bites being ante mortem and others post mortem. “
This is what the chronology of facts reveals:
As explained by our colleagues from The union, the investigation must now determine which dogs attacked Elisa Pilarski and to whom they belong. Samples have also been taken. The results of the samples, including saliva samples, taken from the 67 dogs (the 62 from the Rallye la Passion crew which hunted at Saint-Pierre-Aigle and the five from the Pilarski-Ellul couple) are still awaited. They could be released in February, according to the victim’s mom. Elisa’s ex-boyfriend Christophe Ellul is said to have hired two lawyers to defend his dog.
For the time being, two tracks have been dismissed by the investigators. That of Christophe Ellul, the victim’s companion, whose statements made on the day of the facts coincide with the findings established by the investigators in the field and that of the walker and his Malinois who were identified.
The hound pack released before the start of the hunt?
The participants in the hunt are formal: the deer hunt did not start on November 16 until 1:28 p.m. “As evidenced by a photo of the start of the hunt that we gave to the gendarmerie that day, when the hunting fanfare rings and the riders do not have their bombs on their heads. The dogs haven’t been taken out before, “said Jean-Michel Camus, one of the Rallye La Passion crew members. According to him, the hunting dogs cannot therefore be those who savagely killed Elisa Pilarski because she died between 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.
This alibi works if the 21 dogs have not been removed from the truck before 1:28 p.m. But gray areas remain on the pack’s timetable, such as write our French colleagues from L’Union, who retraced the chronology of events.
We now know that the dogs left Faverolles half an hour before the riders. Remember that on this Saint-Hubert day, a mass was celebrated at 10:30 am in the village of Faverolles where the headquarters of the Rallye La Passion is located. At the end of this religious ceremony, around 11:30 am, the priest blessed the dogs, Poitevins, and a banquet was offered to the inhabitants of the village. The truck, carrying the 21 dogs of the pack, left the scene before the riders, around noon, in the direction of the farm. There, two horses were loaded into the van which was hitched to the truck. According to Jean-Michel Camus, he was led by the boatswain, accompanied by his employee, the stitcher.
This maneuver finished, the team would have left Faverolles in the direction of the Conservator’s crossroads, in Retz forest not far from where the body of the young pregnant woman was discovered by her husband. Several routes are possible between the farm and this place in the forest, either via a forest road suitable for motor vehicles from the D2 (12km), or via Saint-Pierre-Aigle. It takes about twenty minutes to make this journey. The meeting is fixed at 1 p.m.
The version of Jean-Michel Camus is however contradicted by a follower also present on this day. According to the latter, the stingman would have left alone on board the truck to recover the horses at the farm, the master crew leaving Faverolles with the other hunters around 12:30 p.m.
On the spot, the person in charge of the pack, taken of nausea and vomiting, gave up participating in the hunt on horseback and followed the hunt in a vehicle. Within the crew, the latter educates and trains the pack. Jack of dogs on horseback, he usually follows her during the hunt for deer. Its role in hunting is essential.
On this important day for hunters, so as not to spoil the party, the boatswain replaced his employee and decided to take responsibility for the dogs, locked in the truck since noon. If the hunt started at 1:28 p.m., were they left in the van for so long? Did someone take the initiative to open the doors so that they could stretch their legs before the start of the hunt and in confusion since the stitcher was failing?
While waiting to know if the pack of the crew of the Rallye La Passion is released or not from any responsibility in the death of Élisa Pilarski, dogs and riders are since November 16 “in forced rest
“, According to Jean-Michel Camus. “This is an instruction that justice has given us. They have an enclosed courtyard for frolicking. “
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