French authorities seize white tiger cub at suspected exotic animal trafficker's home while pythons and endangered marsupials are found at his mother's house
This handout photograph released by France's Gendarmerie Nationale on May 4, 2019, shows a white tiger cub as it plays with the jacket of an official in Brignoles in southern France
Investigators in southeast France have seized a white tiger cub at the home of a suspected exotic animal trafficker, while pythons and endangered marsupials were found at his mother's house, a police source said Saturday.The arrested man is believed to have cashed the sum of $19,000 "but had not yet handed the small primates from Madagascar to the buyer," the French police said in a statement.
A raid on his home uncovered the white tiger cub, while a simultaneous operation at the home of the suspect's mother in northeast France uncovered four sugar gliders -- small, nocturnal marsupials native to the part of Australia, Indonesia, and New Guinea -- as well as nine snakes including two royal pythons.
Appearing before a judge, the arrested man was immediately jailed for eight months in connection with an earlier fraud case. Illegal trafficking in wild animals is punishable in France by a year in prison and an over $16,000 fine.White tigers are not a separate subspecies. The white fur is a rare genetic mutation which is mainly seen among animals inbred in captivity.
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