At three o'clock on Good Friday afternoon, the first calls came to the police: A wolf had been sighted at different addresses in Skövde. Among other things, it had been seen in Hentorp and on Stationsgatan in the city centre.
"My first thought was: 'What is that? Is it a dog that is loose?" says Maximillian Pehrson, who spotted what he thinks may have been a wolf.
"Then you saw that there was no leash and that the fur was unkempt, so it can't have been a dog that someone took care of anyway," he says.
Hunters should track
The Swedish Police Authority announces that it is prepared to contact the hunting rights holder, i.e. the responsible hunter in the area.
"If it is a wolf, there is a responsible hunter who will be tasked with tracking this wolf and making sure that it disappears from the central parts," says Thomas Fuxborg, police spokesman.
"I don't think it will be killed directly, but the hunting rights holder decides," says Thomas Fuxborg.