Animal rights activists are suing Ben Chillwell after he "fought" with a tiger
The Chelsea left-back has been documented "playing" a tug of war with a tiger at a Florida zoo, and has since been under attack.
An eyewitness said: "There was nothing entertaining about it, it was an abuse for its own sake."
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Ben Chillwell is under attack by animal rights organizations in the UK and US, following a video in which he and three of his friends are seen abusing a tiger at a zoo in Florida.
The 25-year-old Chelsea defender, who is suffering from an injury that will shut him down until the end of the season, spends his last days in the United States and in a video uploaded to Instagram in which he looks amused and smiling as he and his friends "play" pulling a rope with the tiger over the cage.
Chillwell and his friends tied a piece of meat to the end of the rope, and in the end, as one of his friends who uploaded the video noted, "the tiger won, but so did we."
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"There was nothing funny or entertaining about it. Ben and his friends were just abusing the unfortunate tiger, it was an abuse for her name," an eyewitness told The Sun.
"They do not treat the tiger with respect. It just entertains them, even though the unfortunate tiger looks poor and weak."
The RSCPA, an animal rights advocate in the UK, has decided to sue Chillwell for abusing a helpless animal.
"This video does not contribute to the dignity of wildlife, and should not be used by other people for entertainment and pleasure purposes," they explained.
Just you it's amusing.
Chillwell and the Unfortunate Tiger (Photo: Screenshot, From Twitter)
Chillwell's video comes just weeks after the case of Kurt Zuma, who was documented abusing a cat and was fined £ 250,000 by West Ham.
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