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French rail firm fined after train runs over cat

TGV high-speed passenger trains operated by SNCF depart Bordeaux Saint-Jean railway station in Bordeaux, France. (Photo: Bloomberg)


PARIS: A French court on Tuesday found France’s national rail operator guilty of negligence after a departing train, apparently deliberately, ran over a cat hiding on its tracks.

The death in January at the Montparnasse station of Neko — which means “cat” in Japanese — provoked outrage, with Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin declaring himself to be “particularly shocked”.

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