Police searched a villa in a wealthy suburb of Kiel on Wednesday and found a Second World War tank, a torpedo, a 88 mm Flak cannon and other weaponry in the cellar.
On Thursday they were still working on removing the Panther tank. But the villa owner’s lawyer claimed that the tank could no longer fire its weapons and that he was therefore not breaking any law, reports the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ).
And for the mayor of Heikendorf, Alexander Orth, the find also came as no surprise.
“He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978,“ Orth told SZ.
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