Over the last two months, seven black cats have stopped showing up for their daily meals at a Marseille housing block.
Some have been found with signs they were killed in a horrific manner while others have just vanished. One was found cut in half, some crushed, and the tail of one was found in a feeding bowl.
“Now I'm always apprehensive when I'm giving food to the cats,” Marie-José Canetti, pictured below, told Le Parisien newspaper.
“It makes me feel sick to the stomach.”
#Marseille: un serial killer de chats noirs sévit-il dans cette résidence ? http://t.co/rkUermevcO #chats #faitdivers pic.twitter.com/FlNl8uibbz
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She said she had no idea who among the hundreds of residents was responsible for what the paper dubbed “a massacre” – but she had her suspicions.
“Perhaps its a person who doesn't like animals and thinks there are too many cats. Or it could be a very superstitious person.”
As in many other countries around the world, black cats are considered by some in France to bring bad luck.
Canetti has since filed a police report over the apparent black cat serial killer.
The sheer gruesomeness of the attacks, coupled with the fact that the killings have occurred in what is usually a peaceful neighbourhood, has seen the local mayor chiming in over the weekend.
“If there is a raging psychopath out there, everything must be done to stop them and keep them out of harm's way,” he told Le Parisien.
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