Crime. The former zoological director of Kolmården zoo is pressed by the prosecutor during the trial of an attendant who was killed by wolves in 2012.
Experience of the zoo wolves were missing when he became manager, claims the prosecutor.
Prosecutor Jan Olof Andersson wants to show that Mats Höggren, the former zoological director of Kolmården zoo, had not had any more experience of work with wolves when he was made director. He has previously worked with a government mandate to protect biological diversity in the Swedish countryside. Where he has studied large carnivores, like the wolf. But, he may admit, when the prosecutor presses him, where it was about wolves, not the socialized that existed at the Kolmården zoo.
And according to Höggren himself he did not receive any in-service training, which deals with the socialized wolves or animals at Kolmården zoo. Instead he should have been taught about wolves from the staff at Kolmården, where they had socialized wolves for a long time.
– There were, and are, a great knowledge, ” he says.
– When I got there, I got me lots of empirical and dedicated to knowledge over the years. And I got to be with when a varggrupp nappades up and be part of this business, ” says Mats Höggren.
Generally not dangerous
The attendant who was killed by wolves in 2012 was zoolärare at the zoo, and several persons, according to Höggren have had the responsibility for training her. According to him, there were demands on formal education both at the zookeepers and zoolärare and that they were trained in-house at the zoo before you let them work in with wolves.
According to Höggren is wolves are generally not dangerous, but can kill to get food for the moment, in order to defend the status of the group or defend territories.
When the wolves are in puberty and becoming sexually mature, they are generally more aggressive. The wolves in the enclosure in which an attendant was killed in 2012 was around three years old.
– Then it tends to level out a little bit, ” says Mats Höggren.
the Prosecutor presses on with questions about why Kolmården did not see wolves as dangerous animals.
– We had bettskador with eleven stitches in the leg, ” said the prosecutor.
– Yes, but we had a different starting point. We can not go in to them and on the other hand find that they’re lethal, and we thought not either, ” says Mats Höggren.
there Were warning signs
According to the prosecutor, there were plenty of warning signs and he believes that the accident had been prevented. Reports showed that the wolves bet and nibbled visitors in the clothes far in advance of the event where the caregiver died.
Mats Höggren was a part of the management team, skyddskommittén and the so-called varggruppen. All of these were groups at the zoo that worked with the wolves, with security and with the health and safety at work.
It means he had knowledge of the discrepancies among the wolves, but also other in, for example, the management had it.
– For example, the incidents that have been discussed here, it is obvious that all with ansvarsposition sake of having the knowledge of, say, Höggren.
the Defense believes that the djurskötarens’s death was an accident.
– No, at the time when this occurred foresaw that something like this could happen. And it is based on more than 30 years of working alone with the wolves, said the defence counsel Johan Eriksson, during the trial date.
the FACTS
the Indictment against the Kolmården
Kolmården zoo in the past zoologiske manager, Mats Höggren, is accused of arbetsmiljöbrott including involuntary manslaughter, felony.
In the indictment described the offence as serious “because the offense involved the conscious risk-taking of serious blow” and that Höggren “guilty of misconduct of a serious nature”.
the scale of punishment for aggravated involuntary manslaughter accommodates imprisonment of not less than one year to a maximum of six years.
the Prosecutor contends that the zoo is required to pay a corporate fine of four million.
Source: Lawsuit from Riksenheten for environmental and work environment objectives
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