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The Berlin lion scare appears to be over. It was fun while it lasted. After witnesses claimed to have seen a female lion prowling around a suburb and produced a blurry video, police ordered residents to stay indoors. An outdoor concert was moved. Helicopters, armoured vehicles, drones, thermal-imaging cameras and more than 300 police officers spent a day and a night scouring woodlands in the area. The usual suspects began demanding that the lion must not be harmed. But the story turned out to be a pig in a poke. It began to unravel when the video was examined more closely. A local circus boss told reporters: “If that’s a lion, I’ll eat my broom.” The sound of a lion roaring in the Zehlendorf district inside Berlin’s borders caused a momentary media kerfuffle. But it turned out to have been played through Bluetooth speakers by a group of teenagers. This jape was described as “neither helpful for the police nor the local community” by a somewhat peeved official. Berlin R