Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
STOCKHOLM / TT A number of sightings of wolves have been made in various parts of Stockholm County in recent days. Last night police were alerted that someone was chasing a wolf in Skarholmen.
Police received an alarm of someone trying to hunt a wolf with a car in Skärholmen, south of Stockholm.
“It may have been an ambulance driver or passenger in an ambulance who witnessed the incident,” said Per Wetterlind, officer at the Stockholm police’s county central communication office.
Police went to Skärholmen, but saw neither a wolf nor any suspicious car.
“We went there to protect the wolf after all. Though we do not know, the driver might have had good intentions too,” says Wetterlind.
On Saturday it was reported wolf was sighted on Färingsö in Ekerö, west of Stockholm. The County Board has studied the pictures of the animal, noting that it was a wolf.
The Färingsö-wolf is the only one confirmed so far.
“But wolves can move long distances in a short time. Several tens of kilometers per day is not unusual,” explains Hanna Dittrich Söderman, officer at the provincial government of Stockholm on the agency website.