I saw that earlier too. Why the hell did they eat it? Swan isn't usually something I see at the meat market. According to the article, the brats thought it was a really big duck, which I guess is supposed to make it okay that they killed it? Did they really need to hunt in the first place like they claimed to be doing? Or did they just want to kill an animal minding its own business and figured "hunting" would be a good excuse? Didn't the relatives that cooked it ask where they got a swan from?
My guess is they wanted to get hold of the cygnets without the mother swan throwing a fit (which she would definitely do because swans are very protective of their nests), so they killed her first, but wanted to get rid of the evidence, so they took it home to be eaten. I'm assuming they sold two of the babies to the plaza shop and wanted to keep the other two as pets/appetizers.
I hope they get charged with something, or I hope at least the parents get charged and then beat the brats' asses. A teeny tiny part of me kind of wishes they would have killed and eaten a protected species so they'd be in
super deep shit.