Overview
- Customs investigators report seizing about 400 kilograms of finished synthetic drugs and more than €200,000 in cash from the 500-square-meter warehouse.
- Two men, aged 41 and 50, are in pretrial detention on organized trafficking allegations following the October 29 raid in Nauen.
- The hazardous cleanup ran eight days and drew in federal and state units, fire brigades, chemists and specialist contractors working in top-tier protective gear.
- Investigators say the products were 3‑CMC and 4‑CMC and the manufacturing was massively contaminated and unhygienic, with three officers suffering minor chemical burns during the initial entry.
- Authorities call it the largest lab encountered by the lead officer in over 30 years, and they are pursuing accomplices, supply chains and potential environmental impacts.