Overview
- Business police working with Munich’s city administration seized almost 900 two-kilogram canisters, totaling more than 1.7 tonnes, inside a gastronomy venue in Laim.
- Officers found some cylinders openly accessible with inhaling gear and more stashed in boxes in the main room and an unlocked side room.
- The 43-year-old operator was detained on suspicion of violating the Neue-psychoaktive-Stoffe-Gesetz and was released by prosecutors the next day.
- Investigations have been handed to Kommissariat 82, a Munich unit that focuses on drug trade cases.
- Under changes effective April 12, canisters over 8.4 grams are banned, online and vending-machine sales are barred, retailers face a ten-cartridge limit per buyer, and minors are prohibited from handling the gas, with violations punishable by fines or up to three years in prison and up to ten years for commercial dealing or sales to minors.