Drug raid in Vienna: Police grabs six-person dealers!

Drug raid in Vienna: Police grabs six-person dealers!

Wien, Österreich - On December 6th, a Notorious Drug Ring in Vienna was smashed, which operated through a network of "Coco-Taxis". The Viennese police arrested the last of the six addicts sought. The arrested, including citizens from Austria, Egypt and Nigeria, have sold at least 3.6 kilograms of cocaine during their taxi rides since 2019. Special units, including the WEGA, carried out house searches in the raids and confiscated about 1.4 kilograms of cocaine and a four -digit sum in bar, which was available in scene -typical terms. The two taxis used to carry out drug sales were also secured. The lettering "Coco-Taxi" is widespread in Vienna and was also made visible as graffiti, so reported vienna.at

These arrests are carried out in a context in which not only in Austria, but also in Germany, the consumption of cocaine increases significantly. According to the Ärztblatt shows the reitox annual report for drugs and drug addiction that the proportion of adults at least once a year 2015 and 2021 rose from 0.6 to 1.6 percent. Men are particularly affected, and there was also an increase in advice and treatments for abuse of cocaine. The cocaine's consolidations of cocaine by the police and customs in Germany, with a seizure of 43 tons of cocaine in 2023 compared to 8 tons in 2017.

Burkhard Blienert, the Federal Government Commissioner for Addictive and Drug Questions, warns of increasing radicalization of drug gangs that undermine the market with high-quality, cheap cocaine. The high profit margin makes cocaine the center of the drug market, while the consumption of crack, a substance made from cocaine, increases in cities of German cities. This leads to a worrying development, since the lack of treatment options for those affected and the number of drug -deaths have increased to the highest level since the start of the survey. More and more people lose their lives because of the mixed consumption and health risks associated with drug use.