Farid Ghilas has been jailed after being recorded throwing a cat against a building (Picture: YouTube)

A man filmed throwing a kitten high into the air towards a building has been jailed for 12 months.

Frenchman Farid Ghilas, 24, was found guilty of animal abuse after he uploaded two violent clips of him torturing the animal on Facebook.

One of them shows the four-month-old cat, called Oscar, being hurled at an apartment building and falling hard on to a pavement.

The suspect appeared yesterday at a Marseille court, where animal welfare activists staged protests.


The Society for the Protection Of Animals said it was treating Oscar for a stomach injury and a broken foot. He is expected to make a full recovery.



‘More and more people are filming themselves doing this and putting it online,’ the SPA’s founder warned.

Ghilas’s lawyer said his client ‘regretted’ his actions.

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