Anne Laforge, 35, drives her car into a zoo and opens the gate to the lion cages. A stranger hits her on the head with a peg to feed the animals and opens the cage of Zorba, one of the lions, while she lies on the floor. Anne was there to visit her boyfriend, Richard Guillaud, owner of the zoo. The two had met three months earlier at the European Credit Bank, where Anne worked as a secretary to Thierry Rougier, the director, when Richard went to ask for a loan to save the zoo from bankruptcy.
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