Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
Nordens Ark CEO Mats Höggren was sentenced to probation and fines for safety violations by gross negligence leading to manslaughter by Norrköping District Court.
It was on 17 June, a zookeeper was found dead in the wolf enclosure at Kolmarden Zoo. The attendant had gone in alone without alarms or two-way radios to the eight wolves, which were routinely in Kolmarden then.
Nordens Ark CEO Mats Höggren was at the time zoological director at Kolmarden. He was charged with criminal negligence because the prosecutor felt that it was security failure and that Höggren was responsible for it.