Germany’s final travelling playground bear seized by police

When law coercion arrived during a scene, fights had already damaged out between animal rights activists and employees of a travelling circus.

The brawl was over Ben, a 22-year-old brownish-red bear, who according to animal insurance organisation “Four Paws” is a final travelling playground bear in a country.

The bear’s owners attempted to shun with a animal, pushing by a fence, with a bear trapped in a trailer behind.

But military were means to secure a enclosure and took Ben out in a participation of a veterinarian. They did not wish to contend what would occur with a animal now.

The reason for holding a animal off a playground was that it had been left alone twice within a week, military said.

The segment in that a bear was found had also has a possess anathema on holding furious animals.

On Friday a Bundesrat, a top residence of a German inhabitant parliament, will discuss either to hospital a national anathema on possessing furious animals.

“The seizure of a brownish-red bear Ben is a clever vigilance opposite circuses holding furious animals,” Denise Schmidt from Four Paws said.

But she combined that there are still hundreds of lions, tigers and other furious animals being hold in tiny playground wagons.

The animals rights organisation now wish to safeguard that Ben is brought to a rescue centre in Müritz, northeast Germany, where he can be housed in conditions specifically matched to his species.