The man also found an 88mm Flak cannon and other military equipment from World War II. In addition to the fourteen-month prison, the 84-year-old pensioner must also pay a fine of 250,000 euros (approximately 6.35 million crowns).
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The convict can earn a financial penalty by selling a 40-ton tank and a cannon. The court ordered him to sell (or donate) them to a museum or collector for the next two years.
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An illegal collection of weapons and military equipment was discovered by the authorities in 2015. Investigators reached the man through the black market, where an 84-year-old German was interested in two bronze statues of horses that once stood in the office of Reich leader Adolf Hitler.
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During a two-day raid on the villa of an 84-year-old pensioner, police confiscated several weapons and also about a thousand rounds.
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According to the convict’s neighbors, the man made no secret of his collection and in winter even used the tank as a snow plow.
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