“I just want to go home”: Flemish teenagers smuggle ants with street value of 6,800 euros and risk severe punishment

Two Flemish teenagers risk a severe punishment in Kenya for smuggling thousands of rare ants. DL and SL, both 18 years old, were arrested on 5 April with 5,000 living queens ants in their possession. “We are not criminals, we are naive,” they said in court on Tuesday. But what did these guys drove to become ant smuggers?

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