Death of Neko, who disappeared under train as it prepared to leave, left interior minister ‘shocked’
A French court has found the national rail operator guilty of negligence after a departing train ran over a cat hiding on its tracks.
The death of the cat, called Neko – which means “cat” in Japanese – in January at Paris’s Montparnasse station provoked outrage, with the interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, declaring himself to be “particularly shocked”.
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