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Prosecutors in Hanover have dropped a criminal public corruption investigation into local police officers who accepted free meals of currywurst from a training instructor. The investigation had targeted 17 employees from Hanover’s Central Police Directorate (ZPD) under suspicion of accepting the free sausages soaked in curry ketchup. Currywurst is a beloved fast-food dish in much of Germany. A spokeswoman for the local public prosecutor’s offce in Hanover confirmed to dpa that they had ditched the currywurst corruption case. She told Hanover’s Allgemeine newspaper that there wasn’t sufficient …

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