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Alain Delon’s family refuse to put down dog actor wished to be buried with

Late French film star wanted his pet Belgian malinois Loubo ‘put to sleep’ and laid beside him in grave

The late French actor Alain Delon’s wish that his pet dog be put down and buried with him has been rejected by his children after an outcry from animal rights campaigners. The actor, who died at 88 on Sunday, had said he wished the animal, a 10-year-old Belgian malinois called Loubo, to be humanely destroyed in his arms and laid in his grave in the cemetery of his home in the village of Douchy in the Loiret. Delon created a chapel in a cemetery containing the remains of at least 35 of his dogs in the wooded grounds of his home, La Brûlerie, 85 miles south-east of Paris, which he bought in the early 1970s.

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