Wevelgem Aika, a German shepherd, is the heroine of a family with four young children from Wevelgem. Then Saturday morning in the early hours her owner Elien Decouttere (27) her house was attacked by two burglars, was Aika pal. Even more: the dog, trained to protect in the event of crisis, could the burglars away and prevent Elien Decouttere more blows cashed. “No Aika, this was a very different story”, realizes the woman.
Because they are thirsty, stood Elien Decouttere Saturday morning something for one hour. “I fell down the stairs and went to the kitchen”, the mother of four children the story. “Aika, our German shepherd dog at night in a basket in the kitchen sleeping, growled and stood straight. I thought that was strange. When I the light of the hood aanknipte, everything went very quickly. Both the storage room and from the living room came two men to me flown, both unrecognizable by wearing a hat or a hood. The one was lean and perhaps 1,90 m large, the other smaller but much more robust. It was he, that to me three times, attacked.”
Aika ready to Elien to protect
Elien, who only three months ago gave birth to her youngest son, he blows. “On my right shoulder, but also on my cheek,” she says. “I also love scratches on my right cheek, about to fight, that fortunately, but short lasted. The perpetrators were indeed forced to flee, because Aika as rage went. They went on the attack to protect me. Notwithstanding the fact that they have more than one trap got of the perpetrators, did they not. They pursued them even into the garden, and also there must be at least one offender is still a lot to tackle, judging by the pieces jeans, which we afterwards found in the garden.” The burglars could nothing city. “It was them to get our cars to do,” says Elien, who, together with her husband Nicolas Vallaey (34) is present on parties and events with her mobile frituur ’t Smulkotje. “The adrenaline took over me, when I was attacked. I saw that one of the perpetrators the keys of our mobile deep-fryer in his back pocket sit had and managed to do the rope grab to which the keys hung. Afterwards we found in the garden also back the keys of our Opel Vivaro. Something else to have the perpetrators not been stolen from our house.”
