A campaign denouncing the torture of stray animals on social media led to the Tunisian police arresting the "cat killer", who was sniping cats with his gun and carrying out his crimes at night.
The Tunisian Ministry of the Interior announced the arrest of the "serial killer of cats," whose video spread on the social networking site "Facebook" that includes cold-blooded and horrific sniping of cats by surprise, without showing the perpetrator's face.
However, after organized campaigns by animal defense groups on Facebook, the police were able to track down the suspect after a security camera took pictures of him, pointing his rifle towards a cat from the window of his car seat.
The police said that they had set up a tight ambush on the road to the southern suburb of the capital, and security forces had succeeded in arresting him, and seized a pneumatic gun he was in possession of.
Police said that the suspect, during interrogation, revealed his reprobation to the cats, because she was killing the pigeons he was raising, and the Public Prosecutor ordered that he be kept and take the necessary legal measures against him.