Overview
- The Amtsgericht München convicted the 36-year-old operator and on Monday handed down a one-year-and-two-month prison term that was suspended on probation.
- Two plainclothes police officers posed as customers, signalled interest in a coded offer called “Spezial Pizza,” left to call reinforcements and then had the kiosk searched.
- Officers seized about three grams of cocaine and 53 grams of marijuana during the search, evidence the court cited when finding the sales were carried out commercially.
- The defendant admitted in court to repeated sales and said personal problems and stress as a self-employed restaurateur had led to a cocaine dependency.
- The kiosk has been declared insolvent and closed, and the case highlights how German courts treat 'gewerbsmäßig' sales as more serious while still allowing suspended sentences when there is a confession, addiction and no prior record.