The restaurant bear of the Bekaa

Confiscated: 20 May 2024, Bekaa Valley. Legal status: owner convicted under Law 47/2017. Current location: bear sanctuary, Jordan. Outcome: lifetime care placement.

He spent eleven years in a three-by-four-meter cage beside a restaurant terrace, fed leftovers for the amusement of diners. The confiscation took one day; undoing eleven years took a team of specialists and a sanctuary that never gave up on him.