text: The customs officers weren't expecting to find entrails. Photo: Europol 
   
   The Local/AFP · 26 Sep 2016, 10:07 
   
   Published: 26 Sep 2016 10:07 GMT+02:00 
   
   Customs officers at an Austrian airport were taken aback to find human entrails in the bag of a Moroccan traveller, who said they belonged to her dead husband, local media reported on Sunday. 
   
   The unusual find was made by inspectors at the regional airport of Graz, who checked luggage belonging to a woman arriving from Morocco, according to the Kleine Zeitung newspaper and APA news agency. 
   
   The intestines had been carefully wrapped and placed in two receptacles. 
   
   The unnamed woman explained that she suspected that her deceased husband, a Moroccan born in 1976, had been poisoned and she wished to have a toxicology analysis of his tissue carried out, the Kleine Zeitung said. 
   
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   APA said the discovery was confirmed by the ministry of finance, which is the oversight body for Austria's customs service. Police told AFP they had not been asked to intervene. ||||| BERLIN — A Moroccan woman who took a piece of her dead husband’s intestine on a flight to their home in Austria was carrying the sample because she suspected that he had been poisoned and she wanted European doctors to examine it, her lawyer said on Tuesday. 
   
   The woman, 35, who has not been publicly identified, packed the four-inch piece in her checked baggage on a flight to the southern Austrian city of Graz, where she and her husband, 40, had been living for eight years, said the lawyer, Anton Karner. 
   
   Mr. Karner said his client had been acting on the advice of a doctor in Marrakesh who shared her suspicion that her husband had been poisoned at a meal the couple ate while visiting his relatives. 
   
   The Moroccan doctor extracted the piece of intestine, Mr. Karner said, and apparently helped pack it in formaldehyde and in thick plastic containers. 
   
   Gerald Höfler, who leads the pathology institute in Graz where the intestine is being examined, described the packaging as very professional. 
   
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   “I would imagine that it was done by a pathologist,” he said. “It was absolutely secure, triple wrapped, according to European Union norms.” 
   
   Dr. Höfler said the results of the examination would probably not be known until next week. 
   
   The unusual cargo was found by customs officials on Sept. 8 after they searched the woman’s bag as part of standard random checks when she landed in Graz, said Johannes Pasquali, a spokesman for the Austrian Finance Ministry, which oversees the country’s customs operations. 
   
   The story was first reported over the weekend by Kleine Zeitung, the main local newspaper in Graz. 
   
   Leo Josefus, a spokesman for the police in the state of Styria, of which Graz is the capital, said customs officials had first turned to the police for guidance. 
   
   Officers determined that the woman had violated no Austrian laws by bringing the sample into the country, and the intestine was then sent to Dr. Höfler’s clinic. 
   
   Mr. Karner, who declined to name his client, said she suspected poisoning after the family meal because some members of her husband’s family had opposed their marriage.
target: – On Sept. 8, a 35-year-old Moroccan woman's bag was randomly checked upon her arrival in Graz, Austria. What was inside was "absolutely secure, triple wrapped, according to European Union norms," per a pathologist. Yes, pathologist: The New York Times reports the woman was carrying a four-inch piece of her late husband's intestine; the Independent picks up a local paper's report that describes the entrails as being in two containers. The Local reports a government agency confirmed the find. The woman's lawyer tells the Times that the woman was bringing the body part back to Graz, where the couple had spent the last eight years, to have it tested. This after a Marrakesh doctor suggested the 40-year-old might have been surreptitiously poisoned, perhaps by members of her husband's own family who were against the marriage. The BBC reports a doctor was called and said such testing wasn't possible in the absence of the whole cadaver, but the Times reports the intestines have been sent to the aforementioned pathologist's clinic, which is examining the entrails and expects results next week. The woman's transport of the organ was not illegal, notes the paper. (The airport isn't the only unexpected place intestines have turned up.)