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The fate of a cat run over by a train at a train station in Paris had hit France and now a court has ordered the French railway company to pay damages.

A court in Paris found the SNCF guilty of negligence on Tuesday, broadcaster Europe 1 reports. The railway must pay the two owners of cat Neko 1000 euros each.

The staff was opposite

The cat had escaped a mother and her daughter from a transport basket before departure, both suspected the animal was under the train. But the staff refused to stop the TGV at Paris-Montparnasse station. Later, both discovered the dead animal between the tracks. The president of the court denounced that “necessary human resources had not been used to recover the cat” before the train departed.

Animal protection organizations had started a process after the incident at the beginning of this year. A train is stopped for a forgotten piece of luggage, but not for an animal, the animal rights activists explained in court. On the part of the railways, it is a deliberate and cruel act.

However, the SNCF stressed that it was not at all clear where the cat was hiding. She was not spotted between the tracks until the train departed. The owner had accused the railway of “lack of empathy” and that SNCF had not replied to any of her letters.

(sda/dpa)