They were chipped, pampered, and that didn't stop them from vanishing.
The Les4pattounes association has conscientiously identified the worrying disappearances of cats reported in the space of one year - from March 2020 to March 2021 - in the agglomeration of Toulouse and the surrounding countryside.
To arrive at an incredible and frightening total of 382 missing cats.
Celine Gardel, police officer of her state and president of the association, made in a table the count municipality by municipality: 88 disappearances in Toulouse, but also 16 in Castelginest, 20 in Aucamville or 8 in Bouloc ... the municipalities of the north of the Pink City being particularly affected.
Suspicion of trafficking
This table was also sent by mail on Sunday to the 25 mayors concerned, to a police station and to six gendarmerie commanders.
Céline Gardel specifies that these documented reports are those of "unexpected" disappearances, for cats not really runaways.
She recalls that animal trafficking is the third in the world behind that of drugs and weapons.
Les4pattounes also lodged a formal complaint with the Toulouse prosecutor's office.
“The objective, modest but realistic, is to mobilize the actors so that the light can be shed on these disappearances and to stop the phenomenon, explains Céline Gardel.
Victims have a legitimate need to know.
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