Police in Germany were called to an annual shareholder meeting at Mercedes to defuse a fight over sausages.

It’s been a difficult few months for the German car industry, after the Volkswagen emissions rigging scandal.

But when Daimler, the company that makes Mercedes, held its annual general meeting in Berlin police can’t have imagined they would have to intervene at the buffet table.

It appears trouble started when a woman shareholder noticed a man was helping himself to rather more sausages than she felt was reasonable.

The man was allegedly wrapping the sausages up to take home, and when the woman told him to stop the disagreement quickly escalated into a fracas.

“We had to call the police to resolve the matter,” Manfred Bischoff, the chairman of the Daimler board explained to shareholders.