An 80-year-old pensioner is facing charges for poaching in the German capital — after he killed a wild boar with an axe.

“If you don’t want to know what an 80-year-old butcher did in a Reinickendorf car park with a hatchet last night, don’t click here,” Berlin police said in a rather alarming tweet, accompanied by a picture of the dead boar.

Although it is a city of 3.5 million people, Berlin includes extensive areas of forest where sightings of wild boar are not unusual.

Police were called to a forest near the suburb of Reinickendorf on Sunday evening after a resident reported a suspicious vehicle in a closed supermarket car park.

A 75-year-old inside the car said she was waiting for her husband, but when police looked for him they found him hiding in the woods with a freshly slaughtered wild boar.