The Kochel police cleared up a series of sawn high seats in the Walchensee area.
The perpetrator is a former police officer.
The pensioner confesses.
A former police officer has let his hatred of hunters at Walchensee run free
Since 2018 he has been sawing, among other things, several high seats
He was caught red-handed
Kochel am See / Walchensee
- The cases go back to 2018, the Kochel police chief Steffen Wiedemann announced on Wednesday.
A 75-year-old man from the southern district was identified as the perpetrator.
He confesses.
Wiedemann confirms our newspaper's request that it is a retired police officer.
The man was caught red-handed in the forest by one of the victims in August 2020.
Since then, the investigation has been ongoing, reports Wiedemann in an interview with the Tölzer Kurier.
The officials in Kochel also examined cases from previous years.
Until 2018, property damage in the Walchensee area of the perpetrator could be proven, according to the Kochler police chief.
Specifically, there are eight cases with sometimes massive damage to so-called hunting facilities such as high seats and salt licks.
“In some cases high seats had been completely cut, sometimes only the ladders were sawed,” reports Wiedemann.
The property damage is "in the very high four-digit range".
The local hunting rights and the Bavarian State Forests are affected.
Fortunately, said Wiedemann, no one was harmed in the acts.
It is possible that some high seats were even "climbed in ignorance of the danger".
The perpetrator confessed to the property damage, reports Wiedemann.
“As a motive, he named personal problems with hunting wild animals.” The 75-year-old confessed to some of the cases, while others could be detected by wildlife cameras or the location of the tracks.
"For example, we found traces of paint rubbed off on saws on the suspect." The Kochel police have worked through all the cases in this matter from previous years, said Wiedemann.
The perpetrator has so far not appeared as a criminal offense.
All reports will now be sent to the public prosecutor.
The perpetrator must expect a fine or even a low-threshold prison sentence.
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