The baby lion was discovered inside a hired Lamborghini during a police search on the busy luxury shopping street, according to the source, confirming earlier media reports.
The driver was taken into custody and the cub was being looked after, they said.
Last month, a six-week-old lion cub was seized from an apartment in a Paris suburb and the owner sentenced to six months in prison.
Hier soir la Fondation #30millionsdamis s’est occupée d’un lionceau saisi par la Police sur les Champs-Élysées. Le petit fauve était à bord d’une voiture de sport de luxe de location. Interpelé, l’individu qui se trouvait au volant du bolide a été arrêté et placé en garde à vue. pic.twitter.com/QCmkcrQwPj
— 30 Millions d'Amis (@30millionsdamis) November 13, 2018
During that trial, the prosecutor said the discovery was not an isolated case and investigations were already underway into three other baby lions kept on the outskirts of the capital.
In a separate incident also in October, a tiny lion cub weighing just a few kilos was found in a car garage in the southern French city of Marseille.
That cub, a female believed to be between one and two months old, has been passed on to a specialist NGO which works to shelter wild animals.
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Empty, soul-less, impotent fools … trying to imbue themselves with the spirit of these noble (and dwindling) creatures. How much more pathetic can such (supposedly “rich”) dregs of humankind become? Stay tuned as humanity ever-more panics in response to MASSIVE global warming (caused by guess who? Idiot US).