The snake show at the Moulin Rouge is over. The Parisian cabaret, urged by an association for the defense of animals to stop using protected species in its act, announced the stop of it on Tuesday. The management of the famous room in the Pigalle district "anticipates its commitment," she said in a succinct statement.
Revived, the establishment did not want to provide details. Quoted last Friday in an article in Le Parisien, the management had then indicated that "the presentation of animals on stage will be stopped from 2024".
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This decision comes on the eve of a new demonstration planned by Paris Animaux Zoopolis (PAZ) in front of the cabaret. This animal protection association intended to denounce a "business on the backs of animals" and planned "to file a complaint for animal abuse". "This is a historic step forward, the Moulin Rouge is a well-known cabaret for Parisian evenings," said Amandine Sanvisens, co-founder of PAZ, for whom this announcement "goes in the right direction of the decline in animal captivity in France".
Terrestrial species immersed in water
In this daily cabaret show, a dancer dives into a transparent pool where she manipulates large pythons. However, the two species used "are protected species", which is more "terrestrial" and not aquatic, had deplored in early March the mayor of Paris, itself pressed by PAZ on this subject, asking the establishment to "no longer use wild animals" in its shows.
In response, the Moulin Rouge promised to stop this number after "reasonable notice" for "the artists and service providers involved". But since then, "no timetable has been communicated," PAZ said in statements released Friday and Tuesday.
The establishment had claimed to have announced this decision previously to the two co-rapporteurs of the mission of application of the law of 30 November 2021 against animal abuse. The latter, which strengthens the supervision of shows featuring wild animals, concerns discotheques and television sets, but not cabarets.