This lion was seized in a worrying state in a circus of the Eure - One Voice

Grinded teeth, claws removed, wounds on the tail and on the body ... It is a circus lion in a terrible state, which was seized on Friday June 5 in Eure by the French Office for Biodiversity.

Under the authority of the public prosecutor, a judicial operation was carried out against this itinerant circus which had been stationed since the confinement at Vironvay, in Eure. "This operation aimed to verify the regulatory conditions for the detention of lions," said the Eure prefecture in a press release Wednesday, June 10. After having noticed that the circus held five lions while it only had permits for four, an animal was seized. "

Cirque de Paris: @ Prefet27 updates following the broadcast of a video from the @onevoiceanimal association. pic.twitter.com/STvalhnrew

- Prefect of Eure (@ Prefet27) June 10, 2020

According to the prefecture, it is in this context that the association One Voice was asked to recover the animal, which has since been entrusted to a refuge for wild animals, Tonga land of welcome, in the department of Loire.

Complaint against the circus already filed in 2018

The One Voice association indicates for its part, in a press release, that it had "already filed a complaint in 2018 with the parquet floor of Evreux (Eure) against the Cirque de Paris, for acts of cruelty, bad behavior treatment, placement in conditions that could cause suffering and irregular exploitation while the Cirque de Paris was in Saint-Marcel. "

Declawed, toothless, hungry ... no, Jon does not come from the zoo of a country at war, we have just rescued him from a circus in France. For @ Prefet27, in this circus, the animals are "in good health". The #CirquesSansAnimaux, is it when they are dead? Https: //t.co/GeQMEcLUxH pic.twitter.com/9x4Qvi9JU2

- One Voice (@onevoiceanimal) June 10, 2020

The lion taken in, baptized "Jon" by One Voice, is currently being fed and cared for in the shelter that took him in. The association, which campaigns for the prohibition of wild animals in shows, has filed a new complaint against the circus for acts of cruelty, and claims the seizure of the four lionesses still in possession of the circus.

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