Germans stop piano smuggling racket

Germans stop piano smuggling racket

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norman lebrecht

January 07, 2019

Customs officials on the German-Swiss border at Rheinheim have detained two East Europeans on suspicion of smuggling up to 21 pianos into Germany.

The pianos, which were second-hand, had estimated values of up to 10,000 Euros.

Are we feeling safer now?

 

Comments

  • nous avons en tete says:

    i do need one ! do you have any email of them ?

  • M McAlpine says:

    Must have been difficult to get them in your hand luggage!

  • Mike Schachter says:

    In hand luggage presumably?

  • “Hey, Ollie… I know how we can fool the customs agents.”
    “How’s that, Stan?”
    “We hide the piano… in a can marked ‘sardines’!”

  • Algot says:

    There used to be some good old Bösendorfers in DDR. Just ask Dag Achatz. 😉

  • Oliver Klozoff says:

    Do you mean 10,000 EUR for all 10?

  • Mick the Knife says:

    What does “up to mean 21”? Crime reporting should produce an exact number for pianos, especially if they were grands.

  • HBmus says:

    What idiot took that photo of the piano with the lid opened incorrectly? must have been a smuggler?

  • Michael Endres says:

    A fully extended lid plus the stick in the wrong place doesn’t generate a feeling of safety…

  • Peter says:

    “Are we feeling safer now?”
    At the risk of starting the obvious, this was presumably to do with tax or duty avoidance rather than security concerns.

  • Neil Thompson Shade says:

    Sounds like GRAND larceny to me!

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