Brother bitten by pit bull Liana: She was such a beautiful girl – De Gelderlander

The Syrian refugees Liana (6) survived an attack Sunday night in Amsterdam by an angry pit bull. She is now back jokes, but her family has not yet dared her to hold up a mirror. ,, Hopefully surgeons do their work. “

,, Was it just happened to me, ” sighs a heavy excited brother Yahya (18) in the doorway of his flat in the Speelmanstraat. ,, I might have had a chance. But such a beautiful little girl. She had no chance. “

On Sunday he sees as a rabid pitbull Charly face his little sister Liana apart. The girl is just crawled behind their apartment by a spike in the fence of the garden. Here, among neighbors since a few weeks a new pit bull at home.

chillingly
What happens exactly is still unclear. Brother Yahya one of the first attack just chilling screams of his sister. Without thinking, he runs down the stairs of the porch, around the corner to the lawn where his sister now lies beneath the beast. There he sees the dog bites her several times in her face.

The owner does a frantic attempts to get off Charly Liana. Brother Yahya wants nothing more than to help, but he can not reach it. The gate where his sister crawled through it’s locked. The hole where it does get through, is too small for him. ,, Police, ambulance. Fast. Was the only thing I thought, ” said Yahya.

Maimed
If the dog runs away suddenly, Liana sees chance to stand up and seek protection in a downstairs neighbor. He lifts her over the fence. Liana is maimed beyond recognition. Blood is everywhere. Only her beautiful black curls and her dark eyes see neighbors who it should be.

,, She was such a pretty girl, ” Yahya says now two days later. ,, She could be a model. I said that only still with her. And now? “” Yahya not know. They have to wait and see. Hope that the surgeons do their work. Still is his sister in the hospital. She is conscious. been joking. Yahya swallowed. ,, But we dare not let her in the mirror. ”

Break
boos on his downstairs neighbors Yahya is not. The Charly owners are also destroyed itself from. Owner Andy can beat now the head themselves that they have taken the dog at home, he says. ,, At the shelter they said still: beware of small dogs and children. And within a month goes wrong. ”

That this drama Syrian family calculated should happen here. They have seen so much misery when she still lived in Syria until 2015, says Yahya. Family members who have been killed. Friends. It’s all spared them. It reduces the pain somewhat. ,, What we have seen is much worse in Syria. ”