Austrian police arrest man in poisoned baby food case
A suspected extortion plot involving baby food took a significant turn on Thursday, when Austrian police said they arrested a 39-year-old man linked to a case in which rat poison was placed in jars of baby food.
A suspected extortion plot involving baby food took a significant turn on Thursday, when Austrian police said they arrested a 39-year-old man linked to a case in which rat poison was placed in jars of baby food.
Authorities previously said five “manipulated” jars of the same HiPP baby food product were recovered safely last month in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia before anyone could consume them. German police said at the time that a sixth jar believed to have been in Austria has still not been located.
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“Today we succeeded in arresting a suspect, [a] 39-year-old man,” a spokesperson for police in the eastern state of Burgenland, where a poisoned jar was found, said, declining to provide further details because they could jeopardise the investigation.
Earlier today, tabloid newspaper Kronen Zeitung reported that the man was arrested in the state of Salzburg, near the German border.
HiPP said soon afterwards that the email was sent to a group address that is not checked often.