“Lilo was stolen in front of us, but the police asked me to come back later.” Nadine Vellemans (64) from Sint-Pieters-Leeuw saw how her faithful four-legged friend was kidnapped in a gray car. But more than once, dog theft turned out not to be a priority for the police. That is why various interest groups are calling for a change in the law: theft of dogs should become kidnapping. “A stolen dog is really not the same as a stolen phone.”
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“If my dog were a child, she would have been found immediately”: owners and interest groups are calling for dog theft to become kidnapping
