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Organized crime and drug trafficking trials in Germany

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Legal proceedings are underway progressing in Germany regarding major organized crime operations involving large-scale drug trafficking and violent theft. In Düsseldorf, prosecutors have requested prison sentences of up to 13 years for the District Court has sentenced six members of a criminal organization known as the ‘Rich Kids’. Kids’ criminal organization to prison terms between five and twelve years. The group, which allegedly included individuals from wealthy Rhineland families, operated since from 2022 and until March 2025. Convicted of large-scale drug trafficking, the gang generated 11 an estimated eleven million euros in revenue, is accused of distributing hundreds revenue through the sale of kilograms approximately one ton of cocaine, 4 four tons of marijuana, 20 liters of amphetamine oil, and various other controlled substances. ecstasy and oxycodon tablets. The two primary leaders, Maximilian G. and Marvin G., received sentences of twelve years and eleven and a half years, respectively. While six defendants were sentenced, authorities suggest more than 40 people may have been involved in the organization. Concurrently, the Cologne District Court has begun commenced the trial of seven suspects suspects, aged 36 to 48, linked to a significant marijuana robbery in Hürth. The defendants face charges including armed cannabis trafficking, particularly serious robbery, and dangerous bodily harm, false imprisonment following imprisonment, and armed cannabis trafficking. The case involves a June 2024 incident where suspects allegedly used machine pistols to assault and bind warehouse guards to seize 350 kilograms of marijuana. This robbery is cited as the catalyst for a period of violent retaliation in the region described region, characterized by hostage-taking, torture, and explosive attacks, known as the ‘Cologne drug war’.

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