German police say they have solved a nine-year-old burglary case, while DNA tests have been carried out. After being found on a half-eaten piece of sausage, matched with a man detained in France for some unrelated crime.
The sausage belongs to the victim, and one suspect – a 30-year-old Albanian citizen – helped bite himself during a break-in in Gavelsburg in March 2012, the western city of Svalbard police said Thursday.
Nordrain-Westfalen Force officials said in a statement that the DNA pattern at the time did not generate direct hits but that automatic comparisons with international databases led to a later link.
The connection was made after French police took a DNA sample from a person involved in a violent crime, warning investigators.
It is not clear what type of sausage – known as Wurst in Germany – was burglary, although police said it is a strict variety.
However, the law on restrictions on burglary has expired, meaning the suspect is not likely to be extradited to Germany. The suspect is free, Schwalm police said.
With the Associated Press.
