It was a very upset Frank Leboeuf who addressed Kurt Zouma on Instagram.

Like many, the former player of the French team saw the video of the West Ham defender hitting one of his two cats, a Bengal.

And he is "devastated", especially since he held his colleague in high esteem, especially because they both played at Chelsea and wore the same number.

"I thought you were a good guy.

But you are no longer.

Not for me.

I'm so disappointed.

What did you do ?

I have four cats at home.

You don't do that, you don't play football with a cat!

I do not want to talk to you anymore.

Hopefully we won't meet, because I can't stand it.

You touch a cat, a dog, whatever the animal, it's like touching a human being,” Frank Leboeuf first said in English in his video.

Penalties

The ESPN consultant then spoke in French to Kurt Zouma.

“Did you crack or what?

Since yesterday, I have been devastated.

I don't understand (…) What are you hiding behind your smile?

It's not going there!

You don't touch animals!

You don't kick an animal!

It's like hitting a child!

It's not going at all there, man, you have to pull yourself together, we have to take your cats away!

", he added.

A request that Frank Leboeuf was not the only one to make and which was satisfied.

The RSPCA, the British equivalent of the SPA, has come to collect Kurt Zouma's animals in order to care for them and find them a new loving family.

The player also lost his contract with Adidas and will have to pay a fine of 250,000 pounds sterling (about 300,000 euros), the equivalent of two weeks of his salary.

His club, West Ham, was also fined for bringing him onto the pitch the day after the outrageous video emerged.

Vitality insurance, one of their sponsors, has announced that they are breaking their contract.

“We are extremely disappointed with the club's decision in response to this incident.

Accordingly, we are suspending our sponsorship with immediate effect,” their statement read.

It remains to be seen what is the future of Kurt Zouma in the France team.

Didier Deschamps said he was "there to make selections" and not "not a prosecutor".

In any case, the public has already judged: West Ham supporters have a new chant "That's how your cat feels" every time Kurt Zouma takes a hit on the field.

In short: Don't fuck with cats.

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France team: Deschamps judges "inadmissible and intolerable" the violence of Zouma against his cat

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