Animal rights activists have launched a campaign against the Moulin Rouge, complaining that the storied cabaret is immersing non-aquatic snakes in water.
File: Dancers perform on stage during a full-dress rehearsal at the Moulin Rouge in Paris.PARIS - Animal rights activists have launched a campaign against Paris institution the Moulin Rouge, complaining that the storied cabaret is immersing non-aquatic snakes in water on stage.
"The snakes have no business being there," said Amandine Sanvisens, co-founder of the PAZ animal rights group, which has launched a petition against the act. The cabaret founded in 1889 told the Parisien newspaper last month:"We have never mistreated and will never mistreat animals." It claimed it used"a species of aquatic python, equally at home in the water as on land" in the show.
Meanwhile, the Moulin Rouge appears to sit in a loophole in a 2021 law that forbids using wild animals in nightclubs or on TV from this year and bans owning them from 2028.
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