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| Courtesy of kibrispostasi.com |
Another meat smuggling scandal, and fairly close to home this time. A late night raid, presumably on the basis of information provided as two supermarkets were searched simultaneously after normal business hours, revealing very nearly two tons of illegal meat. Most of it was beef, although reports say, with prim precision, that 67.1 kilos were lamb.
Three arrests made. Here not all accounts are the same. Supermarkets not named but one in Girne, where we don’t shop, and the other in Alsancak, next village over from us, where we sometimes do but never for fresh meat. Two of the suspects were in their thirties, the sources agree. The third either early thirties or twelve. Would police actually have arrested a twelve year old? Quite possibly. Intriguingly a different account gives initials although not names for all three. Though as usual one assumes that their identities are well known to family and friends but meaningless to anyone else.
Not entirely clear why meat is so much more expensive in the North while chicken and produce not much different. Although one Southern commentator says snarkily that Northerners should try eating pork - which is indeed the cheapest meat in the South but obviously not eaten by most Muslims.
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