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Lidl manager convicted in Greece over bottled mouse
0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008
SALONIKA, Greece (AFP) — A manager at German-owned discount chain Lidl was sentenced by a Greek court Thursday to 10 months in prison after a customer found a mouse in his beer bottle, a judicial official said.
Purchases Manager Art Werner, who was not present in the northern city's court, appealed against the sentence which is redeemable at five euros (3.2 dollars) a day.
A Lidl branch customer in east Salonika in 2006 said he fell ill after drinking from a bottle of beer containing a 13-centimetre (five-inch) mouse.
The supermarket blamed the incident on a bottling procedure error.
The customer has already received 30,000 euros (46,500 dollars) in compensation.
Lidl is Germany's second biggest discount chain and recently unveiled plans to...
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