Paris airport frequent "lost cat case" owner angrily sued the airport and airlines

Source: Le Parisien

Overseas network on September 10, Paris airport "lost cat" incident frequently, causing pet shippers to worry and anger, a lost owner on the 9th sued Paris Airport Group (ADP) and related airlines, becoming the first case in France. The French Society for the Protection of Animals also asked the airport group to conduct an internal investigation.

According to the "Parisian" reported on the 9th, on August 25, a pet cat was left at the baggage sorting office of Paris Orly Airport, and then disappeared. On September 3, Air France's subsidiary Pan Air said it was working with Paris Airport Group to retrieve the lost cat as soon as possible. However, on the 9th, the owner formally filed a lawsuit against Pan Aviation airlines and Paris Airport Group, accusing them of "serious negligence in service and animal cruelty". Plaintiffs' lawyer Arash Drumbashi said this was the first related prosecution in France, but that in order to prevent such a situation from happening again, judicial action was necessary, "the travel expenses for pets have been paid and airlines must comply with safety obligations." ”

Similar incidents are not isolated. On August 1 this year, due to the carelessness of a baggage porter at Orly Airport, the cat's kennel fell off the conveyor belt and it was left on the runway and failed to board with its owner.

On August 15, passenger Laura flew from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Gabon on air France and entrusted a dog and two cats to the airline, but a baggage porter accidentally dropped the animal case, killing the 3-year-old pet cat Mojito on the spot. Air France said it would launch an internal investigation, but Laura asked the airline to compensate Mojito for his ticket and denounced that airlines must treat animals like human passengers.

Sarah, a resident of the Yvelines department of Paris, has spent more than 9 months recovering the lost cat Rusdi. On August 31, 2018, Sarah boarded a flight to Reunion Island at Orly Airport, and as she was seated, a staff member of France's low-cost airlines Bee Air informed her of the unfortunate news: 4-year-old Rusty was missing at the baggage sorting office. Sarah immediately got off the plane to look for the cat, but was not found. In June, airport employees called Sarah to say a cat that might have been Rusty had appeared. At the reunion, Sarah recognizes Rusty at a glance, but her hair is dry, her nails are broken, and she is exhausted. Sarah appealed to Caribbean Airlines, the parent company of Bee Airlines.

A Paris Airport Group security official said "negligence" in the transport of the animals was to be blamed, revealing that "in places where there is no camera surveillance, some staff will knock on the animals' boxes to make them excited." A security guard at Orly Airport explained that lost animals are often "a kind of work negligence under pressure" and that baggage porters must walk quickly, sometimes recklessly.

The French Society for the Protection of Animals has sent a letter to Augustine de Romanne, ceo of the Paris Airport Group, asking the group to open an internal investigation and impose sanctions on employees who failed to perform their duties. But Paris Airport Group noted that the responsibility for caring for animals lies primarily with airlines. (Overseas Network - Paris - Lujia)

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