Homeless man in France abused beheaded dozens of cats
Date
4/25/2016 11:51:16 PM
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: This file picture taken on February 23 2012 shows Japanese youths fondling cats at a 'cat cafe' in Tokyo. A 'cat cafe' in Tokyo was raided by health inspectors and ordered to close its doors due to animal neglect after complaints about nasty smells coming from the premises Tokyo officials said on April 22 2016. AFP / TORU YAMANAKA
Bobigny France: A homeless man in France will be charged with animal cruelty after police found over 80 abused cats in his squat several of which had been beheaded a police source said Monday.
The grisly tale came to light last Wednesday when a woman spotted the 48-year-old man trying to sell "four month-old kittens not yet weaned in a bad state" the source said.
She alerted the police who arrested him for cruelty and carrying a weapon.
The following day police accompanied by the Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) went to a shuttered petrol station in Rosny-sous-Bois east of Paris where the man was squatting and uncovered chilling scenes of cruelty.
After seven hours they rescued 57 "sick and under-fed" cats which had been locked in a room as well as 22 dead felines showing "obvious acts of cruelty" such as decapitation.
On a second visit on Friday they found another four cats. All animals were handed to the SPA.
The suspect underwent a psychological examination and will face trial in early June according to the police sources.
AFP