Halloween Chocolate: Needle Horror Expands
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After Upper Austria, Lower Austria and Styria, a case from Salzburg became known. As before, the following applies: please be careful and check carefully before consumption! In Lower Austria, one case is known so far. A ten-year-old was slightly injured in the mouth by a bite into a mini chocolate in which a needle was hidden. There is also one case in Salzburg. In Upper Austria, two cases were reported, in Styria four.
After eight reported cases of tampered Halloween candy containing nails and needles in Austria, the Federal Criminal Police Office has set up a special investigation team called “Treat” to coordinate investigations across the Austrian provinces. After the provinces of Upper and Lower Austria and Styria, a needle has now been found in Halloween candy in Salzburg. […]
According to media reports, foreign bodies were now found in Salzburg in Halloween sweets. After already in other countries cases of needles in chocolate bars or similar became known, the first case has now also been reported in Salzburg. SALZBURG. In the Stadteil Salzburg-Parsch a boy is said to have found a chocolate bar for Halloween. On closer examination, the boy's father found a foreign body in the packaged bar. However, he is not the firs…
So far, eight cases are known and reported in four Austrian provinces. One case in Amstetten in Lower Austria, two cases in Linz and the district of Vöcklabruck in Upper Austria, four cases in the districts of Leibnitz and Weiz in Styria, and the most recent case in Salzburg
The cases manipulated Naschsachen for children on Halloween also widened: Salzburg is now affected by a fourth federal state, a separate investigation group was set up in the Federal Criminal Office (BK). According to Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP), a case from Hungary was also announced after Germany, and there are other cases in Canada.
In four federal states needles and nails were discovered in Halloween candy. Eight cases are known, a child was injured. Police warns.
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