Nigerian Migrant Spotted Cooking Cat On Playground

This is quite disturbing.

A Nigerian migrant was caught on camera cooking a cat at a playground in Italy.

In photos taken by a bystander at the park, the migrant is seen holding a wooden stick and pushing a dead cat over a fire he started.

The New York Post reported more on the bizarre actions of the migrant and revealed whether he faces any charges:

A sick Nigerian migrant was caught trying to cook a cat on a makeshift fire at a children’s playground in Italy.

Shocking pictures show the man, who is holding a stick, poking at the flames and crouching over the dead animal near a multicolored slide at a play area in Sarzana, northern Italy, last Tuesday.

Locals reported the shocking scenes to cops — and the man could only tell them he was hungry, Italian outlet Città della Spezia reported.

The fire was already out by the time police arrived.

The migrant was arrested, but cops couldn’t determine if he had killed the animal or if it was already dead when he cooked it.

He avoided animal cruelty charges, a decision that disgusted Mayor Cristina Ponzanelli, who expressed horror at the “cruel and inhumane” act.

Take a look:

Migrant seen cooking a cat on makeshift fire at children's playground https://t.co/WG5bcrtRuw pic.twitter.com/u7B2b4LAaV

— New York Post (@nypost) April 22, 2026

This story reminds me of the time Trump stated immigrants were eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio.

The Week covered Trump’s previous comments on migrants eating dogs and cats:

Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump made a shocking claim at his Sept. 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris: that immigrants were abducting and eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio. The claim has been the subject of intense controversy ever since. But how did Trump come to believe this rumor, and why does his campaign continue to defend what he said at the debate?

Immigration has been at the forefront of Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement since its inception in 2015. Trump and his allies have consistently boosted negative stories about immigrants, including so-called caravans of migrants making their way through Central America and Mexico to the U.S. southern border and crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, which Trump has dubbed “migrant crime.” Portraying the situation at the southern border as chaotic and dangerous has been a key part of Trump’s political strategy now for close to a decade.

None of that background, however, fully explains why the former president has become fixated on an unsubstantiated rumor about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. A community of about 60,000 residents half an hour from the city of Dayton, Springfield has become a destination for Haitians who are in the United States legally, many under the Biden administration’s 2021 expansion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to citizens of the country. Republicans opposed that policy, and have sought ways to attack Democrats for pursuing it.

The claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were eating pets appears to have originated with a Facebook post that was then amplified by social media influencers like conservatives Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec on X. The original Facebook post appears to be based on claims made by a local extremist at a public meeting with city officials. The presence of conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer on Trump’s plane the day of the debate may also have impacted Trump’s willingness to make the claim publicly.

Remember this?

NEW: A Nigerian migrant was caught killing a cat and trying to cook it on a makeshift grill right next to a children’s playground in Italy.

Witnesses spotted him and immediately called police.

I specifically remember the media attacking Trump for saying “they are eating the… pic.twitter.com/nYcpIU4nkb

— Jack (@jackunheard) April 19, 2026

What’s your view?