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Police officers and the re-captured animals in Madrid: The circus suspects animal rights activists may have freed the camels and the lama from their enclosure
Photo: SPANISH NATIONAL POLICE HANDOUT / EPA
The Spanish police were called on an unusual mission in Madrid.
The officers caught eight circus camels and a lama on a nightly procession through the streets of the Spanish capital.
The animals were discovered around 5 a.m. in the southern district of Carabanchel and safely returned to their owner, the police said on Twitter on Friday and showed the unusual night owls in a photo.
The runaways had therefore not strayed too far from their circus called Quiros.
One of the circus officials, Mati Muñoz, was relieved.
"Thank God nothing happened," she told the AFP news agency.
According to her, the electric fence around the enclosure of the eight camels and the lama had been cut, so the circus had filed a complaint.
You assume an act of sabotage by animal rights activists, said Muñoz.
"They come to protest every year."
asc / AFP