Woman stopped at Austrian airport with her husband’s ENTRAILS stuffed in her suitcase… but cops say she HASN’T broken the law
The woman told authorities that she believed her husband, who died during surgery, had been poisoned and wanted his body tested
A MOROCCAN woman has been caught trying to take her husband's intestines into Austria.
Airport officials were left stunned when they examined the woman's luggage at the Graz Airport, finding her husband's intestines carefully placed in two containers.
The unnamed woman explained to officials that she believed her husband had been poisoned in Morocco and wanted to have a toxicology analysis of his intestines carried out.
The woman said her husband had died during an operation in Morocco, local paper Kleine Zeitung reported.
A doctor was called to examine the intestines but said that an investigation would not be successful as the whole body was needed.
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Both the woman and the man were nationals of Morocco.
The woman escaped charges as police said she had not broken any laws.
Austria's ministry of finance, which overseas customs operations, confirmed that the intestines had been found by officers.
It is understood that the man's entrails have been stored temporarily and will be forensically tested at a later date.
Graz Airport mainly serves metropolitan destinations with about 6000 passengers passing through the airport everyday.
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