Police call of search efforts after reports of ‘lion’ on the loose near Berlin
Up to 220 police officers, drones and helicopters with thermal imaging cameras were set to task trying to find the animal, after an alarming video emerged online appearing to show a big cat.
Forensic experts dismissed footage of the ‘lion’ as a wild boar due to the animal’s size and posture. Police had been tracking a suspected big cat after footage emerged of what was claimed to be a lioness in the woods to the southwest of the capital. But the bizarre tale grew stranger when hours before, the son of the boss of a German crime family pleaded for a possible missing lioness to be returned safely "before some idiot shoots her".
Rainer Altenkamp, first chairman of the Berlin Nature Conservation Union , had already poured cold water on the idea of it being a big cat.
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