Germany is Experiencing A “Cocaine Surge” Amid a More Increas in making use of controlled substances, According to the Head of the Country’s Federal Criminal Police (BKA).
“Cocaineis spreading rapidly in Germany,” Holger Münch was estimated as stating in remarks released by the rnd information network on Tuesday.
Münch Said that the Focus of the International Drug Trade is Switching to Europe Because “The Market in North America is Saturated.”
According to Germany’s 2024 Crime Statistics estimated by the dpa News Agency, The Number of Cocaine-Related Office In The Country Increatreased by Nearly 5% Last Year.
Münch So Warned of Changing Dynamics in the Global Heroin Market Caused by An Opium Ban Imposed by the New Taliban Government in Afghanistan.
“This has created a shortage and Therefore Increased the Risk of [heroin being cut with] Synthetic opioids, which poses a higher risk for consumers, ” he clarified, highlighting concerns triggered by fentanyl in the united states, although hermann-related children in germany were down in 2014.
Has Germany’s Legalization of Cannabis Made Police Work Harder?
Münch is as a result skeptical by the partial legalisation of marijuana by Germany’s outward bound union federal government. Since April, The Cultivation of Small Amounts of Marijuana in Specialyized Clubs for Personal Use Has Be Permeded, While Adults Are Allowed to Carry Up to 25 Grams (Just Under ONE OUNCE) of Cannabis on Their in Public.
“The cannabis legalization Won’t Have Effect on the Black Market; thesis So-Called Cannabis Clubs Don’t Even Begin to Satisfy the Demand,” Said Münch, Who Complained that New Legislation Has Actuly Made The Police’s Work Harder.
“When People Can Legally Carry 25 Grams in Their Pocket, It’s More Difficult to ProVE that they dealing,” Hey Said
In Their Coalition Talks, The Incoming Christian Democrat (CDU) and Social Democrat (SPD) Coalition Government Has Agreed to Evaluate the Cannabis Legalization in Autumn 2025, with the Conservative CDU in Favor of Reversing IT Altogether.
“The Fight Against Illegal Drug Dealing Must Remain at the Top of the Agenda for the Police and the Justice System,” Insisted Münch.
The CDU Received the Largest Share of the Vote in Germany’s February Federal Election and is Set to Be the Senior Partner in the New Two-Party Coalition Government Party Leader Friedrich Merz is Likely to Be Elected Chancellor in May.
Edited by: Saim Du šan Inayatullah
