Crocodile head found in luggage at Italian airport

Crocodiles are protected under the 1973 Washington Convention, designed to protect endangered plants and animals from international trade. Photograph: Guardia di Finanza.

An Italian man is facing a hefty fine or possible prison term after the dried head of a critically endangered crocodile was found in his luggage at Turin’s Caselle airport.

The man had arrived at the airport in the northern Italian city on a flight from Miami via Istanbul, the Turin unit of Italy’s financial police squad said in a statement.