In the case of the police officers killed in Kusel, the suspicion that the alleged perpetrators could have been poachers is confirmed. What role does illegal hunting play in Germany? And what is being done about it?
Two men are in custody after the killing of a police officer and a police officer in the Palatinate district of Kusel. As the investigation progresses, the suspicion grows that the men may have killed to cover up the illegal shooting of wild animals. According to the public prosecutor’s office in Kaiserslautern, 22 fallow deer were found in the suspect’s car. In addition, investigators in Saarland discovered animal waste in the sausage kitchen of suspect Andreas S. and elsewhere 20 gutted wild animal carcasses. In front of the door there was a refrigerated trailer with meat packed ready for sale and worth several thousand euros.