Overview

• The Weiden public prosecutor’s office has filed charges against the 45-year-old Dutch suspect for organized drug trafficking, negligent homicide and negligent bodily harm.
• Investigators allege the accused oversaw storage of champagne bottles filled with liquid MDMA at a warehouse in Arnhem.
• Charges relate to a February 2022 incident in a Weiden restaurant where a 52-year-old man died and seven others suffered life-threatening poisonings.
• German authorities and the Zollfahndungsamt traced the Ecstasy-laced bottles back to the Netherlands and seized six additional contaminated bottles.
• The Landgericht Weiden must now decide whether to admit the indictment before the case proceeds to trial.