Overview
- Police searched an apartment in Nuremberg and arrested a 22-year-old man on suspicion of raping a minor and giving her a prescription painkiller, with medications and synthetic drugs seized at the scene.
- Prosecutors requested pretrial detention for the 22-year-old and a local court issued an investigation custody order that keeps him in custody pending further inquiry.
- A second detainee, a 35-year-old man found in the same apartment, was taken into custody after officers discovered a mixture of cocaine and amphetamine on him and verified an outstanding arrest warrant.
- The arrests were made by Kriminalpolizei investigators working in the EKO Kajal task force, which was created after repeated sexual assaults and reports of drugs or medicines being sold to minors near Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof.
- Investigations are ongoing and officials say the operation aims to identify other suspects and clarify whether the seized drugs were being supplied to minors around the central station.