According to the authorities, the unknown perpetrators were specialist.
They had not only dug up the asparagus correctly but also closed the holes at the mounds in which the vegetables grew.
On Monday, the researchers estimated the damage at about $5000.
The crime in the town of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg on the border of Mainz likely happened on Friday night.
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