BERLIN (AP) — German officers seized cooked bats and almost a ton of unrefrigerated fish after police stopped a van that had entered the nation from Belgium, authorities stated Wednesday.
Federal police stated a patrol on Monday stopped the car at a freeway exit on the sting of the border metropolis of Aachen, and located the bats underneath the fish. A vet from the native shopper safety workplace was despatched to the scene and ordered the bats and fish confiscated. Police seized the van, which was uninsured.
The 31-year-old driver, an Ivorian citizen, confronted a felony criticism for visitors offenses and unauthorized entry as a result of he entered the nation with out papers or a driver’s license, police stated in an announcement. He additionally faces administrative proceedings for violations of meals hygiene guidelines, and native authorities had been wanting into whether or not he violated conservation legal guidelines referring to the bats.
A court docket in Aachen on Tuesday ordered the driving force held in custody pending his handover to authorities in Italy, the place he was registered as dwelling.
