Overview
- About 200 police, customs and district staff carried out simultaneous searches across all districts Monday night.
- Hamburg Police President Falk Schnabel attended on site and cited recent serious crimes linked to some venues as the trigger.
- Searches targeted illegal tobacco, drugs, weapons and evidence of unlawful gambling, with heavily armed officers securing premises.
- BILD reported four illegal gambling machines seized in St. Pauli and more than 20 kilograms of untaxed tobacco found.
- Four bars were temporarily closed, with evidence processing and follow-up investigations continuing.