Overview
- The two-and-a-half-year-old was treated by emergency services and taken to Klinikum Kassel, with police noting no severe injury.
- The mother says the Happy Meal bottle she ordered as still water smelled strongly of alcohol and likely contained a disinfectant.
- Kassel police opened a case on suspected negligent bodily harm, seized the 0.33-liter bottle with a sports-cap closure, and sent it for testing.
- Officers say there are no indications of intentional harm, and the cause of the contamination has not yet been determined.
- McDonald’s corporate says it is supporting the investigation, while the local Bettenhausen branch declined to comment.