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The French bureaucrats who may have doomed abandoned aquarium orcas to die... and why red tape leaves them trapped in a hellish existence

France's last two captive killer whales are stranded in the algae-infested Marineland, near Cannes, neglected with the exception of a skeleton staff that comes in intermittently to feed them.

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