Xiamen Customs intercepted 2000 live cockroaches in empty boxes. How to interpret this matter from a legal point of view?

Xiamen Customs intercepted 2000 live cockroaches in empty boxes. How to interpret this matter from a legal point of view? It's terrible. If these things are not intercepted by the customs, what will happen after entering the country, and the consequences are unimaginable! According to People's Daily, on April 14, Xiamen Customs intercepted about 2,000 live cockroaches in an empty container! On the day of the incident, Xiamen Customs officers opened one of the empty containers when checking a batch of empty containers from abroad. As soon as the container was opened, a large number of black and brown cockroaches ran around, and the customs officers immediately closed the container, and then the container was thoroughly disinfected.

Then, according to the legal point of view, how should we interpret this matter? First of all, it is illegal to transport these cockroaches carrying pathogens into China without approval, even more illegal! According to the relevant provisions of the Biosafety Law, the state has the right to confiscate, dispose of and smuggle alien species into China. If it is an individual act, it will be fined more than 50,000 yuan. Secondly, according to the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law, anyone who illegally introduces, releases or discards alien creatures and infringes on species, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years. ?

One of the most important reasons is that sending shoelaces to China without permission will bring great security risks to China's ecological environment and agricultural production safety. According to the identification of relevant departments, the brown cockroaches in the container are Periplaneta americana, and the number is about 2000. Experts said that Periplaneta americana, which entered the customs directly from abroad, carries a variety of pathogens of human infectious diseases, including dysentery bacilli, salmonella, cholera and tuberculosis, and is an important transmission medium of human infectious diseases. Once these things enter the country, their super transmission speed and virus transmission speed will cause unimaginable consequences. Not to mention that 2000 words of live cockroaches carry a lot of viruses. Once these 2000 live cockroaches enter the territory, the casualties caused can be imagined. ?