Overview
- Police opened an inquiry after online photos and video showed a man driving in Bremen with a young lion positioned beside the center console.
- The Interior Senator’s office confirms the cub is not registered under Bremen’s dangerous-animal rules, prompting the Ordnungsamt to move to seize it.
- Officers have not located the suspected driver at his listed address, and the social media posts have since been deleted.
- Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen has been contacted to take the animal, and the park’s chief estimates the cub is about five to six months old.
- Some coverage notes visual anomalies and says the footage is still being verified, while PETA warns that young big cats are often obtained from Eastern Europe for a few thousand euros.