Italy police warn reptiles being used by crooks as weapons after snakes found behind false wall
Anacondas, boa constrictors and a caiman were found behind a false wall in southern Italy, police stated Thursday, amid warnings dangerous reptiles
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Italy police warn reptiles being used by crooks as weapons after snakes found behind false wall
Anacondas, boa constrictors and a caiman were found behind a false wall in southern Italy, police stated Thursday, amid warnings dangerous reptiles are being used by local crooks to intimidate their victims.
Police in Bari carrying out a targeted action in an apartment block found “exotic and dangerous animals” in a secret basement room which had been transformed into a clandestine reptile house.
The find included two green anacondas, each about five metres (16 feet) long and weighing around 60 kg and a spectacled caiman measuring over 1.5 meters long.
“The spectacled caiman … is a wild predator with extremely powerful jaws and potentially aggressive behavior” and posed “a real security concern to general safety”, according to a police comment.
There was also an Asian water observe, a lizard “of considerable size equipped with claws and a potentially dangerous bite”, it stated.
Police also seized a yellow anaconda, a Bolivian anaconda, four Burmese pythons, approximately three meters long each, and four boa constrictors.
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