Blackmail Attempt Foiled in Austria
Police have detained three men attempting to blackmail the Nestle food firm by poisoning instant coffee, the Austrian press agency APA said Friday.
It quoted police as saying that the three had confessed to sending a can of Nestle coffee which had been injected with the poison natriumhydroxide to the firm’s Vienna headquarters.
In an accompanying note the men, all from Linz, threatened to inform the public about the poisoned can unless they were paid $1 million.
Police caught one of the men, who were all between 19 and 22, when he turned up at a Linz railway station to pick up the blackmail money, APA said.
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