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Abused animals also have a right to justice. Lawyer, Isabelle Gharbi-Terrin, now devotes her life to defending them. That day at the Marseille court, it was for the dog Prince, who had been stabbed to death, that she was pleading …
“Nothing in my legal mandate, if you will, when I wear the dress, nothing prevents me from defending animal people and I do. “She is Isabelle Terrin. She is a lawyer. And since 2015, she has decided to plead only on cases concerning animal suffering. When she defends an animal, she considers that she is defending”a whole people, the people of the voiceless. “It is at the request of an owner or an association that it takes up a case concerning a domestic animal killed, abandoned or mistreated.
That day, Isabelle Terrin was preparing to plead for Prince, a dog killed during a fight, in the Marseille court. “I’m going to walk in and say, “I’m Prince’s lawyer.” I say this with a lot of seriousness and a lot of respect for the institutions“, insists Isabelle Gharbi-Terrin. Here, the owner is the peripheral victim,”it is the victim by ricochet. “”But the one who suffered is the animal, I plead for the animal. And I retrace his life in court: I will say when he was born, what were his chances, bad luck, if he was adopted. I will retrace his life like I will a human victim“, develops the lawyer. Trials like this, Isabelle has known hundreds. For her, everything changed after defending Icko, a Yorkie she eventually adopted.
“Since the Marseille Criminal Court sentenced its attacker to four months, I have regained some balm in my heart“, she confides. Isabelle Gharbi-Terrin is sometimes paid, sometimes not.”It is not a litigation which is made to earn a lot of money. I handle this litigation to achieve a passion which is the conjunction between my two passions: criminal law and animals“, she concludes.