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Paris gets puppy to replace dog killed in raid
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RUSSIA symbolically handed over a puppy to France on Monday to replace a police dog called Diesel who was killed during a raid linked to the November 13 Paris attacks.
Igor Zubov, a deputy interior minister, handed the male German shepherd puppy named Dobrynya to French ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert at a ceremony in Moscow attended by Russian and French soldiers.
Dobrynya, who must remain in quarantine for up to three months before leaving for his new home, was named after a medieval knight who was the incarnation of “strength, valor and justice”, Zubov said.
“We all mourn the victims of the attacks,” he said, referring to the coordinated attacks which killed 130, recalling that Diesel, a female Belgian shepherd, was killed five days later during a raid on an apartment where suspects linked to the attacks were holed up.
“In Russia, dogs who serve police are loved not only by the police but also by ordinary citizens,” he said, adding that the gift was seen as “a symbol of the unity of our peoples in the implacable fight against terrorism.”
Ripert called the seven-month-old puppy an “extraordinary gift”.
Diesel died on November 18 during a raid that killed the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, his female cousin and another unidentified man.
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