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Oscar-nominated Hungarian deer kidnapped?
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Two deer, including the Oscar-nominated Hungarian deer, disappeared into thin air, their owner believed them to be dead. The animal conquered the world as the star of an Oscar-nominated film. Authorities are still investigating and searching.
Brutal murder
As Bors reports, police have spent long hours at the scene at Zoltán Horkai’s farm, where two deer were believed to have been shot by unknown perpetrators. The horror may have happened on Sunday. The owner was busy with guests when he was informed by one of the caretakers that one of the deer was lying on the ground showing no signs of being alive. The other missing deer was not found at that time, but the tracks suggested something horrible. Horkai said:
They shot one from the back, near the woods, at their runway, wounded it, after which the animal traveled quite a distance, and went around the fence.
A silenced weapon or weapons were likely used, as no noise could be heard. The police are still looking for whoever attacked the two deer. However, it takes at least four people to carry off such an animal weighing nearly 150 kilos. Thus, the perpetrators were at least that many.
The reason behind the attack
The owner, Zoltán Horkai, believes that the perpetrators wanted the meat of the two animals. One kilogram of good quality deer meat is worth around HUF 7,000 (EUR 18.2). At least 70 kilos of flesh could have been slaughtered from Sanyi, the deer that was killed on the scene. Thus, the fence could have paid hundreds of thousands of forints. However, eating these animals could cost your life. These deer were vaccinated with a vaccine that rendered their meat unfit for consumption. Anyone who takes a bite can become seriously ill, or even die.
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