{"id":523392,"date":"2026-03-14T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523392\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:45:09","slug":"wild-boar-roams-into-berlin-mall-prompting-police-response-with-blowgun-riot-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523392\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild boar roams into Berlin mall, prompting police response with blowgun, riot shields"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wild boar wandered into a Berlin shopping mall’s home decor shop on Friday, sparking a police response that drew in officers and veterinarians equipped with a tranquilizer gun, shields and even a blowgun but ended peacefully.<\/p>\n

Police said they were alerted to the porcine intruder around 9 am when it slipped through sliding glass doors into the mall and started rummaging through the aisles, as staff quickly vacated the shop.<\/p>\n

Berlin’s Tierpark zoo told AFP it deployed a team to the scene in the southeastern Koepenick district but quickly assessed “that sedating the animal was not possible due to the layout of the premises.”<\/p>\n

Berlin police released an image<\/a> on social media, showing the wild boar roaming through a store.<\/p>\n

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A wild boar wandered into a Berlin shopping mall’s home decor shop on Friday, March 13, 2026.<\/p>\n

Berlin Police<\/p>\n

Officers used pallets and riot shields to divert the animal back outside after cordoning off the mall, a police spokesman told German news agency dpa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police said “the wild boar then returned to the forest, which we assume it came from.”<\/p>\n

It was not the first time a wild boar has roamed built-up areas of the German capital, which is surrounded by woods. In July 2023, a wild boar prowling the streets<\/a> of southwestern Berlin sparked panic after it was briefly mistaken for a lioness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Germans have been told to be on the lookout for other wild animals over the years.<\/p>\n

In May 2023, residents in the central city of Erfurt were jolted by the sight of a\u00a0kangaroo hopping across a busy road<\/a>\u00a0after escaping from a private property.<\/p>\n

In 2019, it took several days for a\u00a0deadly cobra to be recaptured<\/a>\u00a0in the western town of Herne, where residents had been told to keep their windows closed and steer clear of tall grass.<\/p>\n

In 2016,\u00a0zookeepers shot dead a lion<\/a>\u00a0after it escaped from its enclosure in the eastern city of Leipzig and a tranquilizer failed to stop it.<\/p>\n

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