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A tourist in Ekaterinburg airport seized a bayonet XIX century

У туриста в екатеринбургском аэропорту изъяли штык XIX века

We returned from Bulgaria to Yekaterinburg tourist found bayonet model 1895. The weapon was seized at the city airport Koltsovo, according to the Ural customs administration. About it writes “Interfax”.

On the handle of the bayonet is number 1387 with the image of an eagle with a cross. According to the passenger, he bought this item on the market of the Bulgarian city of Burgas as a souvenir.

Similar items in the country are in the free market, he added. The tourist admitted that he did not expect any problems with the import of this product in Russia.

Customs examination determined that the submitted sample is a martial melee weapons. It is a bayonet to the rifle Mannlicher, which was used by the soldiers of the army of Austria-Hungary in 1895.

The passenger was instituted administrative proceedings under part 1 of article 16.2 of the administrative code (failure to Declare or false Declaration of goods”).

In July, the Indonesian Jakarta airport was detained a man who tried to smuggle live snakes on the plane. He hid ten pythons in underwear, wrapping them around my feet.

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