Overview
- Police opened the case in winter 2025 after a sixth-grader bought ecstasy at Bamberg's bus station.
- Searches in the city and surrounding district recovered several kilograms of cocaine, amphetamine, cannabis products, ecstasy tablets and prescription medicines, as well as cash and weapons.
- Officers arrested five suspects, most of them 18 years old, and a judge ordered pretrial detention for three men and one woman.
- Prosecutors accuse the group of narcotics trafficking and commercial cannabis trade under German law.
- The months-long probe drew Bamberg criminal police, the Bavarian state criminal office and police support units.