Danish man gets prison sentence for potato motorway stunt

Danish man gets prison sentence for potato motorway stunt

A Danish truck driver has vowed to appeal against a prison sentence after he was convicted in an unusual criminal case for dumping tonnes of potatoes onto motorways in 2023.

Unusual criminal case about protest actions on the highway will continue in the legal system, says truck driver.

Tipped several tons of potatoes on the road - believes the verdict is politically motivated.

A Danish truck driver has been sentenced to almost two years in prison for dumping several tons of potatoes on a highway in the past. The man was protesting a kilometer charge. In addition to the prison sentence, he was deprived of his driving license for four and a half years. The case is discussed on the Danish National Broadcasting website. It says that the man was, among other things, convicted of endangering other drivers and vandalism. On …

A man in his seventies, nicknamed the Potato Man in the Danish media, has been sentenced to one year and nine months in prison for endangering pedestrians when he unloaded several tons of potatoes on a highway in Jutland in June 2023.

The court in Svendborg has handed down a verdict in an unusual criminal case against four men following a protest action against road tolls.