![]() Some dead cats have been found with bullet marks. “In Bray, they don't like cats,“ he added. “When they see a cat, they shoot it!,” one told Actu France. Many residents interviewed by local media believe they have neighbors hunting cats. Meanwhile, in early December a female resident of Arleux, a small town in northern France, found eight cats poisoned to death in her garden, according to La Voix du Nord.įor cat owners whose pets mysteriously disappeared in Bray-les-Mareuil, a small town near Abbeville in northern France’s Somme region, the problem lies with fellow residents who clearly don’t like cats.įor several months, some 20 domestic felines have died or disappeared under suspicious circumstances. In what has been called “envenenamientos recurrentes” - recurrent poisonings - in social media in Andalucía, half the population of 500 cats registered in La Carlota and surroundings have already “disappeared,” according to ABC de Cordoba. The book's title comes from its most famous chapter detailing the "massacre" of cats by two apprentice printers living and working in appalling conditions while numerous cats, intended to prevent mice from eating paper supplies, were well treated and fed on Rue Saint-Séverin in Paris in the late 1730s.įor some historians, that episode of cat slaughter serves as an early example of a workers’ protest over the condition of their labor and can be seen as a precursor to the French Revolution.Ī feral cat sleeping in front of a panoramic view in France getty Cat killers in the villagesįrom mass poisonings at a southwestern seaside resort in 2017 to the conviction of a man in 2020 for the theft, torture and murder of cats, the issue is a persistent problem, not only in France but elsewhere in Europe.Īround the same time of the cat killings in the Loire, on December 31 in Spain - a country suffering in many regions from feral cats - an uproar ensued after the discovery of the bodies of more than 50 street cats apparently poisoned at the local dump where the colony was based in La Carlota, a village just outside the southern city of Cordoba. The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History, for example, is a well-known book of essays by American historian Robert Darnton first published in the mid-1980s. MORE FROM FORBES Best Wildlife Photography Of The Year: 25 Photos To Vote For Your Favorite By Cecilia Rodriguez ![]() Similar cases have been reported across France and, in fact, in other European countries, with some infamous “serial cat killers” becoming symbols of other French social issues and inspiring art works. The case of Montreuil-Juigné’s cat killer is far from isolated. ![]()
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