![]() ![]() On Monday a police tribunal ruled that there should be no criminal trial. The SNCF is facing the relatively mild charge of “inflicting involuntary harm on a domestic pet,” punishable by a €450 fine.īut lawyers for the charity had asked a court to raise the offence to willfully causing the animal’s death, which carries a possible fine of up to €75,000 and a five-year jail sentence. On Saturday, demonstrators gathered at the Bordeaux station in protest over the cat’s death.Ī petition calling for “justice for Neko” has also notched up 33,500 signatures. The incident caused outrage among pet lovers who filed a criminal lawsuit against the SNCF.Ĭampaigners from 30 Millions d’Amis accused the company of “serious abuse and acts of cruelty”. “They told us it wasn’t their problem, that it was just a cat and that we should have had it on a leash.” ![]() “We saw him sliced in half,” Melaina told animal rights association 30 Millions d’Amis (30 Million Friends), which pressed for charges. Pet owners Georgia and her 15-year-old daughter Melaina were preparing to board a train from Paris’s Montparnasse station to Bordeaux in January when their cat Neko escaped from its travel bag and disappeared under a stationary carriage.Īfter 20 minutes of trying to persuade staff to rescue it, the train departed, killing the cat. The death of a cat that was run over by a train in France has sparked protests and landed the national rail operator in court. ![]()
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