Retired from the circus of Saint Denis-d'Authou (in Eure-et-loir), for causes of ill-treatment, Brutus, a four and a half year old lion will join a large animal park in Africa from South. Meanwhile, he lives in the refuge of Château-Gontier (in Mayenne). The SPA of the region has found the funds necessary for his return trip by selling keychains with the effigy of the beast.
According to SPAthere would be about fifty animals, removed from the circuses, who would wait for the same future as Brutus.