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A fight between shareholders over free sausages at Daimler’s annual meeting has overshadowed the German luxury carmaker’s declaration of its highest dividend ever.

 

The dispute at Daimler’s meeting in Berlin on Wednesday quickly turned ugly, forcing the company to call the police.
 

 

The row broke out when one man repeatedly went to the buffet and began wrapping up several sausages to take home, whereupon a female shareholder intervened to tick him off, resulting in a shouting match and the police being called.
 

 

Answering shareholder questions at the meeting, Daimler board chairman Manfred Bischoff said: “We had to call the police to settle the matter.”

 

A Daimler spokeswoman said it was a verbal altercation and the police were called to calm matters – because the female shareholder wanted to file a complaint for slander, and did so.
 

 

At the centre of the row were Saitenwürschtle, Bischoff said with a wink – long, thin sausages from Swabia in Daimler’s home state of Baden-Württemberg in south-west Germany. Elsewhere they are known as Wiener Würstchen or frankfurter.
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