a bit of an odd story, from a zoo I had never heard of: Hunters kill 2 moose, realize they are inside zoo | New York Post The original story, which is mostly identical: Hunters kill two elk in Norway zoo accident - The Local
How could they not know where the zoo was. And shooting through a fence should be a clue. They realized their mistake "seconds later?" Whole thing sounds suspicious. Also, here in USA at least (and I would assume other countries), ignorance of the law does not exempt you from the law. So how do they get off unpunished?
According to the Norwegian news sites I have found about the incident (like the one below from Norwegian television) , it is too early to say if they will go unpunished. The "wildlife tribunal" chairman (I'm really not sure that's the right translation) says the hunt in itself was legal. But that doesn't mean that shooting into a zoo is. The article says that the police are investigating, but will not comment to the press until they have questioned the hunters, and the zoo says it will demand compensation. Jaktlag skjt og drepte elger i dyrepark - NRK Troms - Lokale nyheter, TV og radio
And in an update to the story, the hunters will apparently be questioned by the police today. The punishment for the paragraph in the "game law" that they are suspected of having broken is fines or up to maximum one year prison. Skjt elg i dyrepark - vil ikke kommentere tabben - NRK Troms - Lokale nyheter, TV og radio