two teenagers film themselves on Snapchat torturing kittens, an open investigation

An investigation was opened Thursday, May 11 by the Evreux prosecutor’s office after the broadcast on social networks of a video shot on Snapchat by teenagers, in Eure, on which we see them torturing two kittens, learned Thursday franceinfo with the public prosecutor of Evreux.

This investigation was opened and entrusted to the gendarmerie after a report and a complaint filed for “abuse and acts of cruelty on animals” by the association for the defense of animals Stéphane Lamart. The association denounces on Twitter a “irresponsible, intolerable and cruel behavior”.

In this video, shot on the Snapchat social network by the two teenagers, identified by the association as being fourth-grade students at a college in Eure, they throw a kitten against a tree before throwing a second kitten into it. air. “The two individuals, students in 4th grade in a college in Eure, laugh when they see the corpses of cats”writes the association Stéphane Lamart on Twitter.

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Joined by France Bleu Normandie, the president of the association, Stéphane Lamart, points “a lack of parents and a lack of education” of these two teenagers.