"All my life is there, in the graves of my dogs." In these words you can see all the love that Alain Delon had for his four-legged friends. And in the grounds of his home in Douchy, during his lifetime, about 50 dogs found eternal rest. Each with his own tombstone, with his name. Couples were buried together. A cemetery, to have them by your side forever. An eternal place where the French actor himself asked to be buried, writes 'La Repubblica '.
Alain Delon, sex symbol with a turbulent life, who died today at the age of 88, always found in dogs that true and sincere love that filled the inner loneliness with which he lived, especially in the last years of his life .
The actor has always lived with dogs and one of his first four-legged friends was Gaia, a female Dobermann. "One day I shouted at her, I hit her on the back. She sat down and looked at me - Delon said - I saw her crying." From that day Delon realized how well dogs are able to convey their emotions: "Since then I have understood everything. Since then my dogs have always smiled," he added.
A love that led him to help even animals less fortunate than his own: Delon has always been among the main supporters of his friend Brigitte Bardot's battles for animal rights. The actor also did not refrain from making sensational gestures: he once sent a helicopter to rescue a kitten whose paws had been cut off. After he recovered, he took the kitten to his cottage.
In 2009, another episode showed his great love for dogs: near Perpignan, a stray dog ??ended up a victim of the cruel madness of a couple - a 22-year-old girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend - who painted it with gasoline and set it on fire. That little Pinscher, later named Mambo, survived severe third-degree burns over 40 percent of his body thanks to some veterinary treatment. The case caused great outrage and gave birth to a chain of solidarity in which figures such as the footballer Zinedine Zidane and Alain Delon himself took part.
One of his last dogs was Loubo, to whom he was very attached. A scary connection, so much so that one of the last wishes of the actor in case he died, was that his dog be euthanized, so that he could no longer live without him. A desire that caused an outrage, and divided among people who deal with the rights of animals, most of whom considered a selfish gesture of Akro.
Others saw in those words the sincere concern of those who lived within the pain of dying alone: ??"How many years have I got to live? I may be 90, 92. It's not me who decides, it's the Other out there up. I don't want to leave my dog ??alone," said Delon in an interview.
"I want him to die in my arms. "I prefer this path more than knowing that AIDS will let itself die on my grave, facing a lot of suffering," continued the actor.
And it was precisely this love that made the French actor suffer a lot when Loubo was also involved in the last family battles: among the various accusations leveled against the actor's partner, there was also that of mistreatment of the dog, which then ended in a shelter