The Croatian authorities have arrested an Austrian national on suspicion of trying to smuggle a corpse, after he was stopped at a border crossing with a dead woman riding in his car’s passenger seat, the country’s police said this week.
The 65-year-old man was stopped at the Gunja border crossing with Bosnia in late November after presenting travel documents for himself and another passenger, the Croatian police said in a statement.
The officers then became suspicious after noticing the female passenger “was not conscious and was not communicating”.
The police called a coroner to the scene, who established that the passenger was dead.
Authorities said the 83-year-old woman had died in Bosnia, and the driver had tried to take her body to back Austria to “avoid formalities related to the transport of deceased”, the statement added.
The police did not elaborate on the relationship between the two, but local media has described the man as the woman’s legal guardian.
The police said the case had been formally handed over to the country’s prosecutors.
– Nampa/AFP
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