Kurt Zouma arrived at court docket on Tuesday charged with 3 offences below the Animal Welfare Act after video emerged in February of him allegedly kicking and slapping his cat.
The West Ham defender will seem at Thames Magistrates’ Courtroom along his brother Yoan for a primary listening to.
Yoan Zouma is claimed to have filmed the incident and is charged with two counts of assisting, abetting, counselling or purchasing Kurt Zouma to devote an offence.
Kurt Zouma is charged with two counts of inflicting needless struggling to a secure animal on February 6 this 12 months by means of kicking it within the stomach and slapping it within the head.
The 27-year-old France global could also be charged with no longer taking affordable steps to offer protection to the animal from ache, struggling, harm or illness.
Two cats belonging to Zouma are nonetheless below the care of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).
West Ham fined their participant with regards to the incident and made donations to 9 animal welfare charities in the United Kingdom and out of the country.
