The lion cub rescued from a Lamborghini (30 Millions D’Amis/AP)
A French animal protection agency is caring for a lion cub that was found by police in a Lamborghini on Paris’s Champs-Elysees boulevard.
The agency, 30 Million Friends, has said the cub is the third it has recovered in a month and the sixth in under a year.
The car containing the lion cub was on the Champs Elysees (John Walton/PA)
It tweeted in French with images of the cub, saying that “particular” kinds of people wanted to resell “these babies” for profit, using an angry emoji.
"Les pouvoirs publics doivent arrêter ce qui est devenu un véritable #trafic d’animaux sauvages sur le territoire national. Ces bébés, arrachés à leur mère, font l’objet de revente à des particuliers 😡. Nous avons déjà sauvé 6 fauves en moins d’un an… " https://t.co/btjzi2BOuk
