Overview

• Investigators cite suspicions of insult, incitement to hatred, and the rewarding or approval of crimes, a police spokesman said.
• Zoo director Dag Encke, his deputy, and other staff received death threats following online hate posts.
• Tiergarten Nürnberg says it killed 12 healthy Guinea baboons in July because the enclosure was chronically overcrowded and rehoming or contraception failed.
• Animal-welfare groups denounce the killings as unlawful and have staged repeated protests, including chaining themselves to barriers and entering the closed grounds.
• A widely shared visitor video showing baboon carcasses fed to lions intensified public anger, and prosecutors say their review will take time.