Bardot to Leave France Over Sick Elephants

(Lyon, France) Former French film star and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has threatened to renounce her French citizenship if two sick elephants are euthanized at the Lyon Zoo.

Baby and Nepal, both 42-year-old elephants, are dying of tuberculosis at a Lyon zoo.

In a post on her foundation's website, Bardot declared that she will request citizenship in Russia if the elephants are killed in order to "flee this country that is now just a graveyard for animals."

The 78-year-old former fashion model's threat to leave France came just days Academy Award-winning actor Gerard Depardieu was granted Russian citizenship due to his conflict with the French government.

Heh.