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NO: Four remanded into custody for illegal hunting of wolves

Roughly translated by TWIN Observer

OSLO / TT-NTB

Four men have been remanded into custody in Norway on suspicion of unlawful hunting of wolves in Hedmark county, located on the border with Värmland. All come from the neighborhood of Elverum.

“We have remanded them into custody because there is a risk of destruction of evidence,” says prosecutor Aud Ingvild Slettemoen.

It was a Tuesday, the Norwegian police made raids on suspected poachers. A total of twelve men suspected of being involved in organized illegal hunting of wolves, but eight of them have been released.

A 47-year-old man, according to Dagbladet in Norway admitted that he shot a wolf, four weeks ago, but he denies serious environmental crime(s) and organized criminal activity.

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