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Lion cub found in Lamborghini on France’s Champs-Elysees

The driver was taken into custody and the animal is being cared for by an animal protection agency.

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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.

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The car containing the lion cub was on the Champs Elysees (John Walton/PA)

It is calling for beefed-up measures against the trafficking of wild animals in France.

The cub, named Putin but known as Dadou, is less than two months old.

The lion cub is the sixth rescued by the organisation in a year (30 Millions d’Amis/AP)

It said the cub has a few health problems but is basically fine.

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