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Another French city bans wild animal circuses
Lille is to join hundreds of other towns and cities and ban circuses with wild animals.

The city will support alternative existing models of circuses following a proposition from Europe Ecologie Les Verts.
A total of 343 cities in France have already adopted a similar position on circuses, including Strasbourg and Montpellier.