Suspected animal cruelty in hunting crime spree

The prosecutor's suspicion is that two men engaged in systematic illegal moose hunting. It could be upwards of 25 poached moose, according to Joacim Lundqvist, the police's regional manager for hunting and game in northern Sweden.

- Far above normal limits, i.e. what they have been allocated, he told DN in October.

The one man is now also suspected of gross animal cruelty, which NSD was the first to report. The suspicion is based on material that the police found in the emptying of a mobile phone. It will be a film showing how the man handles a shot moose that is still alive.

- That's right, says Joseph Ricken, chamber prosecutor and head of the preliminary investigation, to DN.

It was after a crackdown in mid-September that the men were served with suspicion of serious hunting offences. The police must have found slaughterhouses and dead moose within a geographically vast area in Gällivare municipality. The police have previously stated that the suspected poaching must have taken place at night, with drones and night vision.

Both men deny wrongdoing.