Drug ring blown up in Linz: Seven arrests and 30,000 euros secured!
Drug ring blown up in Linz: Seven arrests and 30,000 euros secured!
In the event of a focus campaign against the addictive crime in Linz, seven people were arrested on March 26, 2025 and considerable amounts of drugs and cash. The raid focused on the area of the Herz-Jesu Church and Saporoshjestraße. The participants are accused of being active in drug trafficking, which the police in this region worried.
Among the arrested are two Nigerian citizens aged 28 and 29 who were caught when selling cocaine. Furthermore, a 51-year-old Nigerian citizen was put in accordance with accommodation on Landwiedstrasse, while two other Nigerian citizens were arrested in an apartment on the Froschberg aged 30 and 31. In addition, two sought -after men aged 39 and 63 were taken up in Landwiedstraße.
Conservation and procedure
In the course of the campaign, 180 grams of cocaine, 180 grams of heroin and 30,000 euros in cash were secured. This sum is assessed as proceeds from addictive transactions. Some of the suspects were partially confessed with the arrests. The investigators found cocaine in the mouth of the first two arrested and needed violent granting to search for the apartment of the 51-year-old. The search in the apartment on the Froschberg was based on a court -approved order.
All those arrested were admitted to the Linz prison. This campaign represents a further step in the fight against drug trafficking and illustrates the persistent problem of the adhesive crime in the region, which is also documented in larger contexts by other reports on drug crime.
Current developments in drug crime in Europe
An analysis of drug crime shows that in 2022 the German police registered 346,877 drug offenses, which represents an increase of 1.8 % compared to the previous year. Cocaine that increasingly causes problems in terms of development in terms of development recorded an increase in offenses by 27.4 % in 2023 to a total of around 43 tons. This indicates an increasing spread of this drug, which mainly gets to Europe from Ecuador and Brazil.
In addition, it is reported that cannabis still represents the most common drug for drug offenses. In 2023, over 207,000 drug offenses in connection with cannabis were registered in Germany. Among other things, the consolidations included 20.9 tons of marijuana. This information illustrates the ongoing drug abuse and the challenges associated with it, including the measures that the police take to combat drug crime.
The current raid in Linz is part of a larger trend that always presents the police authorities across Europe with new challenges. An increased risk due to mixed intoxications and the increase in drug -related deaths show that the fight against drug crime must be further intensified. It remains to be hoped that these and similar actions help to reduce drug crime and to support the public security forces in their work.
For further information on the background of drug crime, we refer to the extensive statistics of the BKA and the reporting from ooe.orf.at and 5min.at.
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