A 17-year-old boy filmed himself throwing a kitten from the fifth-floor balcony of a building in Jerusalem. After the shocking video was posted online, police detectives arrested the young man for questioning on Thursday morning.
Because of the shocking nature of the video, Ynet has decided not to publish it.
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Video of the cat being thrown from the 5th floor balcony was posted online
(Photo: From Daniel Amram's Telegram page)
Daniel Amram, who earlier this week revealed a video that led to the arrest and indictment against a Haifa man who beat a cat to death, wrote that the teens in the recent video found the kitten on the street in Jerusalem's Pisgat Zeev neighborhood. They took it up to to the fifth-floor apartment of a nearby building and then one of the boys was filmed throwing the cat of the balcony with force, to the laughter of his friends who were with him.
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Following the publication of the video - Wednesday night shortly before midnight - animal activists arrived at the teen's house, but he was not home. At the same time, the police opened an investigation and on Thursday morning the teen who threw the cat, apparently to its death, was arrested in the north of the country. He was taken in handcuffs for questioning at the police station.
"We view any harm inflicted on animals seriously, and we will continue to act online to identify and deal decisively and uncompromisingly with these wrongful acts, which includes monitoring, investigating and arresting those suspects who commit such offenses and spread the act online, until they are brought to justice," the police said in a statement.