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Kurt Zouma<\/strong><\/p>\n Disgraced West Ham footballer, Kurt Zouma, could face up to four years in prison in his native France for kicking and slapping his cat.<\/p>\n A legal complaint has been filed against the 27-year-old in Paris, where there is widespread shock at a video showing the player attacking his pet at his \u00a32million Essex home.<\/p>\n It led to lawyers working for the 30 Million Friends Foundation (La Fondation 30 Millions d\u2019Amis), the largest animal rights group in France, contacting prosecutors.<\/p>\n A spokesman for the Foundation said: \u2018We condemn this heinous act, have asked that the player be suspended from the France team, and filed a legal complaint against him.\u2019<\/p>\n According to article 113-6 of the French Penal Code, a French citizen can be prosecuted for criminal acts carried out abroad.<\/p>\n Tough new animal protection laws were introduced in France in 2021, meaning that the \u2018mistreatment of animals\u2019 is now punishable by up to four years in prison and a fine equivalent to \u00a350,000.<\/p>\n Kurt Zouma\u2019s apology in full:<\/p>\n In a statement sent out to the media, Zouma said in a statement: \u2018I want to apologise for my actions.<\/p>\n \u2018There are no excuses for my behaviour, which I sincerely regret.<\/p>\n \u2018I also want to say how deeply sorry I am to anyone who was upset by the video.<\/p>\n \u2018I would like to assure everyone that our two cats are perfectly fine and healthy.<\/p>\n \u2018They are loved and cherished by our entire family, and this behaviour was an isolated incident that will not happen again.\u2019<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kurt Zouma Disgraced West Ham footballer, Kurt Zouma, could face up to four years in prison in his native France for kicking and slapping his cat. A legal complaint has been filed against the 27-year-old in Paris, where there is widespread shock at a video showing the player attacking his pet at his \u00a32million Essex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":984428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4721,4537,1404,4616,1603,3509,4722],"class_list":["post-984427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-4year","tag-cat","tag-faces","tag-hitting","tag-kurt","tag-prison","tag-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}