World A pro-animal rights anarchist group has set fire to a zoo in France in protest at what it believes to be the illegal imprisonment of wildlife. Activists running the website Le Laboratoire Anarchiste claimed responsibility for the attack on the Peaugres Safari park in France’s central Ardèche region last week, The Local reported. Luckily, the blaze remained confined to the zoo’s entrance, and did not spread to any of the enclosures or the large area of forest nearby. In this file photo, a Bengal tiger snarls by the bars of its enclosure at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Chennai, India, on July 24, 2018. ARUN SANKAR/AFP/Getty Images Recommended Slideshows 76 The Most Powerful Military Forces in the World 59 The 25 Most Powerful Passports in the World 61 Every World Press Photo Winner Ever: 60 Images That Define Our World In a statement on their site, the anarchists said they attacked the park because “zoos are like prisons.” The message continued: “Zoos pretend to protect these animals, when in fact at the time they were discovered by colonialists, they were decimated and thrown into cages and brought back here to be exhibited as entertainment, as gifts in circuses… Read full this story
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