(Swiss Info) Ten inmates at the Realta correctional centre in Cazis, in canton Graubünden, have filed complaints against unidentified parties and the prison management after discovering that meat was falsely labelled. At least one of the inmates worked in the prison’s own butchery.
During a search in September, authorities confiscated nine meat products, reported Mathias Fässler, head of the cantonal office of corrections, in Chur on Tuesday. Tests showed that a “Rindsplätzli” (beef schnitzel), labelled as pure beef, contained two-thirds pork.
Around half of Realta’s 200 inmates are Muslim, for whom pork consumption is forbidden according to the Koran. The mislabelled meat was sold in the prison’s farm shop and was also consumed by staff.
