An animal rights group has filed a criminal lawsuit against the French state rail operator after it approved the departure of a train which killed a cat that was hiding underneath.
SNCF was accused by 30 Millions d’Amis (30 Million Friends) of “serious abuse and acts of cruelty” after the operator refused pleas from the cat’s owners to delay the train’s departure while their pet was rescued.
The incident occurred on January 2 at the Montparnasse mainline station in Paris when the four-year-old cat, which was called Neko, escaped from its travel carrier, jumped on to the track and moved underneath a high-speed train awaiting departure.
The cat’s owners, who were identified by 30 Millions d’Amis only as Georgia and her 15-year-old daughter, Melaïna, asked
