Polish police have arrested two suspects who stole 12 tonnes of snails gathered in the remote forests of northern Poland and destined for dinner plates in France as garlic-buttered escargot, local police said on Thursday.
"The two suspects broke into a depot belonging to a local wholesaler. Using their truck they made several trips back and forth stealing a large number of crates filled with snails," Karolina Gastol-Zawicka, a spokeswoman for police in Sztum, northern Poland said.
"It was 12 tonnes of snails. According to estimates, it was about 350,000 individual molluscs," she added.
Police caught the thieves a day after they made away with the escargots while they were trying to sell them to a different wholesaler in the region. The two men could spend up to 10 years behind bars.
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