Overview
- More than 50 federal and state officers, supported by DB security and Hochbahnwache, checked roughly 463 people at Hamburg-Altona, a bus terminal and an S-Bahn stop on Friday.
- Officers confiscated eight knives, one pepper spray and drugs in seven cases, mostly cannabis with small amounts of cocaine.
- Authorities opened several administrative and criminal proceedings, including for theft and illegal stay.
- Police said the operation sought to uncover concealed carrying of dangerous items and affirmed that recurring unannounced checks will continue in public transport.
- In a separate case a day earlier in Stralsund, federal police seized six knives, a baton and an unloaded blank-firing pistol with two loaded magazines from a 44-year-old lacking a small weapons permit, who now faces weapons-law charges.