There are plenty of videos that go viral on the Net showing the horrors of what man can do to animals.
Thankfully a search for the one at the centre of this tale brings up nothing, even though the event was recorded on a mobile 'phone and then posted on the Net.
Sadly though, there are plenty of other examples of similar behaviour; each of them surely equally inexplicable to anyone with even a couple of neurones between their ears.
In 2006 two adolescents from the south of France had reportedly spent the night drinking and were "looking for something to do".
The pair, according to a report which appeared at the time in the regional newspaper, Midi Libre, decided to relieve their boredom by locking a cat in a cage, dousing it with petrol before setting light to it and watching it die.
"A sordid story," says the animal charity Fondation 30 millions d'amis on it website after the first of the defendants, now 22 years old, appeared in a court in the southern French city of Nîmes earlier this month.
The Fondation was just one of several animal welfare organisations to file a civil suit against the pair. Others included Respectons, the Fondation Brigitte Bardot and the Société protectrice des animaux (SPA).
Speaking on behalf of Respectons, lawyer Frédérique Ortega outlined what made this case especially, in her terms, "barbaric".
"Beyond the acts themselves, the cruelty of these young people also lay in the fact that they made all the arrangements to disseminate these terrible images," she said.
The court has delayed making a ruling in the case against the 22-year -old until April.
A date has not yet been set to hear the case against the other defendant, who was a minor at the time, and will be appear before a juvenile court.
The maximum penalty for such acts of cruelty to animals, according to the 30 millions d'amis website, is a two-year prison sentence and a €30,000 fine.
In 2009 the case of "Mambo" the dog who survived after being set alight resulted in a 22-year-old woman being handed down a one-year prison sentence with six months suspended and a €6,000 fine.
Her 17-year-old companion received an 18-month probationary sentence
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1 comment:
what is there to comment! such a horrible story. I just hope these men get the maximum sentence, and even that does not seem hard enough. Perhaps they should be made to watch the pictures of their cruel acts until they feel disgusted by themselves!
Your article doesn't say, but have they expressed remorse?
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