Overview
- The three suspects, ages 20, 26 and 49, admitted in court to helping bring cocaine into Germany in a case before the Würzburg youth chamber.
- Judges outlined possible terms if the admissions are full and believable, from four to six years in juvenile detention up to nine and a half to eleven years in prison.
- Prosecutors say the network hid high‑purity cocaine in hollow steel bridge dampers in Mexico and sent the parts to Europe through a shell company.
- A farmer’s tip led police to a rented hall near Abtswind, where officers found 300 kilograms of cocaine and arrested three men tied to the site and a nearby highway junction.
- Investigators estimate the scheme moved about 1.4 tonnes in total and say the organizers remain at large, leaving the cross‑border probe active.