THE HAGUE: A French onion supply made eyes water greater than typical when Dutch authorities found two hand grenades hidden among the many greens, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) mentioned Wednesday (Oct 8).
The grenades, courting from 1925, had been present in a consignment of onions heading from France to a manufacturing unit within the northern Dutch province of Zeeland.
Dutch authorities requested the OPCW to look at the discover.
“The projectiles had been recognized to be according to pre-1925 French and German manufactured previous chemical weapons,” The Hague-based organisation concluded after peeling again the layers of the case.
“Nevertheless, the kind of chemical fill couldn’t be recognized,” it added in an announcement.
The rationale for the weapons’ presence within the supply stays a thriller.
The grenades shall be destroyed, however because the Netherlands lacks a devoted destruction facility for one of these object, they are going to be “transferred as poisonous waste to the specialised chemical dismantling facility in Poelkapelle, Belgium”, the OPCW mentioned.
The Netherlands thanked the Belgian authorities for his or her assist.
