Strasbourg sticks out its claws against circuses with wild animals

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this Thursday at 6 pm.

Since this morning, the inhabitants of Strasbourg and its neighboring municipalities have not been able to miss the message.

A truck armed with loudspeakers circles the streets and the slogan is repeated over and over again.

To see tigers, lions, monkeys and other zebras (as on the poster), you will have to go to the parking lot of a large furniture store in a shopping area near the Alsatian capital.

But not on its communal ban.

This is precisely what prompted the town hall to communicate this afternoon. "Contrary to the information disseminated by the organizers, the circus is not established on the territory of the city of Strasbourg", she writes, recalling her opposition to shows with wild animals "because of the suffering inflicted on them ". This is not new. The Strasbourg city council unanimously adopted a wish on this subject on April 16, 2018.

But not the municipalities of Illkirch-Graffenstaden, Ostwald and Geispolsheim, the three which share the parking lot where the circus is located.

All joined by

, they claim that this famous place is located on the neighbour's communal ban.

“And this is private land,” they explain again.

As for the circus in question, it ensures "to be in the nails of the legislation".

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