Police Taser Monkey After Chocolate-fuelled Bender

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French police had to use a stun gun to take down an aggressive monkey that was running amok in a Marseilles neighbourhood, its rampage fuelled in part by chocolate given to it by children, according to a report from a French newspaper.

The North African macaque was the subject of more than a dozen calls to police in the Castellanne neighbourhood — including one report that it scratched children at a local elementary school — over the last few weeks, according to La Provence.

Police say the animal was being fed Kinder chocolates by local children.

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