Convicted of vargattacken at Kolmarden – this has happened – Metro

On 17 June 2012 dog a female keeper at Kolmården zoo after being attacked by wolves.
the Zoo and its then zoologiske manager Mats Höggren was suspected of arbetsmiljöbrott which included involuntary manslaughter.

Prosecutor Jan Olof Andersson claimed that the company shall be sentenced to a corporate fine of four million and the former head to conditional sentences and fines.
the Investigation has taken a long time and includes 1 400 pages and 55 the interrogation.
– We’ve got to do two extensive repeats in the investigation when new facts come to light. It has made, that the investigation is delayed, prosecutor Jan Olof Andersson told SVT.
– not only have We turned on each stone, we have turned on each grain of sand. It is a unique crime and a unique investigation.

today, more than four-and-a-half years after the incident, the verdict was handed down in the Norrköping district court.

The then manager Mats Höggren convicted of involuntary manslaughter to probation and a fine and the zoo is sentenced to pay a corporate fine of eur 3.5 million. Mats Höggren, and the zoo shall pay damages of sek 40 000 to the dead woman’s sister.
the district Court writes in a prismeddelande, according to TT, the then boss "was at the time of the accident, the zoological director of Kolmården Zoo. The district court concluded that he by the delegation had been given the responsibility for occupational health and safety within the scope of the zoo to which Communion, the Wolf heard".

the district Court believes that the zoo had shortcomings in the systematic work environment management and write about the previous incidents and accidents to the "been serious shortcomings in the area of reporting of such incidents".

Deaths. A female keeper at Kolmården zoo, is found dead after having omringats of the wolves inside the wolf enclosure. Just then confirms to the police the accident on its website and is headlining it as a workplace injury and an investigation begins.

New routines. Kolmården change their practices and prohibits close encounters with wolves. In anticipation of the Authority’s decision prohibiting all from entering in the enclosure.

Requirements. the Swedish work environment Authority sends a letter to the Kolmården zoo, where they require investigation, risk assessment and measures to prevent future similar accidents.

a post-mortem examination. Obduktionsrapporten is complete and shows that the wolves attacked the woman in order to kill.

Report. the Zoo leave a private confidential report to the Swedish work environment authority that TT is taking part of. Where it transpires that there is much evidence to suggest that wolves caused djurskötarens death.

Past events. Several theories as to the cause has for a long time flourished. Kolmården stated themselves that the attack occurred without warning, but the newspaper Aftonbladet writes about an occurrence report in the year before death, where an attendant was threatened by circulating the wolves that became more and more menacing.

Suspect. A hired at the Kolmården zoo served on suspicion of crimes involving involuntary manslaughter.

Prosecution. Three-and-a-half years after the deadly attack on the Kolmården submitted the indictment. For the first time, an accident with the wolves tested in court. Both the Kolmården zoo, and an employee at the zoo be prosecuted for arbetsmiljöbrott which includes gross negligence to the death of another.

Trial. the start of the Trial. The prosecutor claims that the Kolmården zoo to pay 4 million in the corporate fine. Both the zoo that the employee denies the allegations.

Dom. sentencing in the district court. The then chief convicted of involuntary manslaughter and the zoo is sentenced to pay a corporate fine of eur 3.5 million. Mats Höggren, and the zoo shall pay damages of sek 40 000 to the dead woman’s sister.