French tourists fined for burning wallaby
By Agence France-Presse in Sydney | China Daily | Updated: 2015-04-18 08:14
An Australian court fined two French tourists A$4,000 ($3,100) each on Friday for animal cruelty after they burned a quokka, a small native marsupial, on an island off the west coast.
The men - Thibaud Jean Leon Vallet, 24, and Jean Mickael Batrikian, 18 - pleaded guilty to causing an animal unnecessary harm, a spokeswoman for Fremantle Magistrates Court in Perth said.
The pair will be held behind bars for seven days if they fail to pay the fine, the she added.
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