Even a police operation

Why a dead hedgehog kept the school in suspense for days

This hedgehog is hopefully just sleeping, a dead specimen had become the number one topic in a school in central Upper Austria.

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A dead hedgehog in the school garden - the police in the classroom. The fate of a spiny hedgehog has kept a school in central Upper Austria on tenterhooks for days. The main question is how it died, which is why the police are investigating. 

"I would like peace to finally return so that we can get back to the important matters at school" - Adelheid Osawaru, principal of Hörsching secondary school, was audibly annoyed when the "Krone" asked about the "hedgehog case". For the past two days, a dead hedgehog has been keeping the principal busy, torpedoing normal lessons and keeping many of the 24 teachers and 181 pupils and parents on their toes.