Copenhagen - Four Danish prison guards were treated for poisoning after eating a cake laced with drugs that was baked by prisoners, Denmark's Ekstra Bladet tabloid reported on Thursday.
The two male and two female guards were treated for stomach pain at the infirmary in a prison in Nyborg, on Denmark's eastern Fionie island, according to an anonymous prison official quoted by the daily.
Prior to feeling sick all four guards had eaten a cake baked by prisoners - some of whom belong to Denmark's most notorious criminal gangs.
Officials said the cake was laced with an unidentified narcotic.
Deputy prison warden Una Jensen confirmed the cake had been baked by "one or several prisoners", hardened criminals belonging to the Black Cobra and Den Internationale Klub gangs.
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"We've never experienced such a violent attack on our members," Bo Soerensen, head of the Danish prison guards' union told Ekstra Bladet.
He called the drugging an "attack on the entire Danish penitentiary model and the good tradition of where guards and prisoners interact in an informal manner."
Authorities at the prison have banned guards from accepting cakes, sweets or other goodies made by prisoners.
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