In a ruling on Tuesday, a French court found France’s national rail operator, SNCF, guilty of negligence after a departing train, seemingly intentionally, ran over a cat hiding on its tracks. The incident, which took place in January at Paris’s Montparnasse station, caused public outrage and prompted Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin to express his shock.
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The cat, named Neko, which means “cat” in Japanese, belonged to passengers Georgia and her 15-year-old daughter Melaina. The pet escaped from its travel bag and disappeared under a high-speed train that was preparing to depart for Bordeaux, carrying 800 passengers. Despite the passengers’ efforts to persuade the staff to rescue the cat for approximately 20 minutes, the train departed and tragically killed the feline.
