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A Famous Pug Was Kidnapped in the French Countryside. It Was All a Hoax.

Summary by Vanity Fair
Seven days after Cyril Schreiner announced that Albert the pug had been kidnapped, he admitted to his nearly 12 million followers across TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat that he’d made the whole thing up. But why?

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In a video broadcast to its millions of subscribers, the Alsatian influencer Cyril Schreiner appears in tears, explaining that two men would have "kidnapped" his carlin Albert in the garden of his house, in Alsace, in the heart of the night. This little dog, ubiquitous in his sketches, is presented as a member of the family as well as a central character of his contents TikTok. Video surveillance images, the testimonies of a policeman and the fe…

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Vanity Fair broke the news in United States on Thursday, February 19, 2026.
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