Searches in various NRW cities
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Police report arrest during raid in Düsseldorf
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Special police forces search a building on Graf-Adolf-Strasse in Düsseldorf.
Photo: Verena Kensbock
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Düsseldorf In Düsseldorf, Meerbusch, Neuss, Kaarst and other cities, a large-scale raid against organized drug trafficking started on Thursday morning. It’s about arrest warrants, evidence and millions of dollars in assets.
Several civilian police cars stop in front of an inconspicuous shop for cell phone accessories in downtown Düsseldorf. Masked officers jump out and begin to empty the shop: In several cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, the police raided organized drug trafficking on Thursday.
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Operations were not only in Düsseldorf, but also in Meerbusch, Kaarst, Neuss, Hürth and Gelsenkirchen, said the Düsseldorf police. A total of 21 objects were searched. A 29-year-old was arrested in Düsseldorf against whom an arrest warrant had been issued.
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Numerous documents were removed.
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Photo: Verena Kensbock
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The police action also had the goal of executing property arrests amounting to around 1.5 million euros and securing evidence. It is about drug trafficking with marijuana and cocaine, money laundering and fraud, said spokesmen for police and prosecutors.
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“The important sales are made in silence. We want to get in touch with them, ”said NRW Minister of Justice Peter Biesenbach (CDU). “So we meet them where it hurts.”
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Special forces were deployed during the raid. The background to the large-scale operation is a procedure by the Central Office for the Prosecution of Organized Crimes in North Rhine-Westphalia (ZeOS).
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The investigators want to present further details of the procedure this Friday at a press conference in Düsseldorf.
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