Kurt Zuma, defender of English club West Ham United, has been convicted of harassing a domestic cat; The district magistrate ruled that 180 hours of community service should be provided and that the cat should not be kept for 5 years. The controversy erupted last February.
The joke, signed by the Frenchman Zuma and his brother Jon, finally made sense. Yon copied a ‘funny video’ of Zuma kicking a pet cat and shared it on social media. The video jokingly shows the cat kicking and kicking. Following the controversy, a lawsuit was filed under the UK Animal Welfare Act. The court also ruled that brother Yon should do 140 hours of community service and not raise cats for 5 years.
Zuma was subsequently suspended from the West Ham squad. He was also dropped from the French team.
