In Germany, the court sentenced the serial killer of hedgehogs to three years in prison (3 photos)

This story began in 2020, when in the parks of the German the cities of Ober-Mörlen began to find packages with mutilated carcasses hedgehogs.





After some time, it turned out that this was the work of a 36-year-old unemployed man who, according to the judge, "built a torture chamber for hedgehogs." He caught hedgehogs, beat them, broke their paws, starved - scoffed as best he could, and then threw the mutilated corpses into the park.



The police got on the trail of the hedgehog killer only when they discovered a pair of used socks in a bag of dead hedgehogs. In the end she found the location on a DNA trail and searched the suspect's apartment. IN during the search, mutilated rabbits and a couple of cats were also found.



The man was checked by psychiatrists and issued a conclusion - a completely sane person with sadistic inclinations.

Last July, the Friedberg District Court pronounced the verdict: two years and ten months in prison for killing 32 hedgehogs, 4 rabbits and 2 cats, but the defendant did not agree with such a term and demanded review the verdict. In mid-January 2023, the case was reviewed again times and the verdict was upheld.

In Germany, hedgehogs are a protected species. For capture, injury and killing hedgehogs or damaging/destroying their nests can be obtained fine up to 50,000 euros