"Unless those seabirds were carrying shotguns," she told The Washington Post. "It was immediately clear that someone had shot him. You could see a bullet sticking out of his body."
"I don't think we've had a case like this before," said Southwestern Police District Superintendent Victor Fenne-Jensen, who declined to comment on whether his department had investigated rumors that the whale was a Russian spy.
OneWhale, a nonprofit specifically founded to protect Hvaldimir, and NOAH, a Norwegian animal rights group, said this week that they had filed a police report with local law enforcement and the state authorities charged with investigating environmental crimes.
In 2019, the beluga captured global attention when he approached Norwegian fish farms, was nicknamed a "spy whale," and became a beloved figure among local communities.
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