Overview
- Staff at a discount chain discovered the packages during goods receipt and called police.
- Finds were recorded in Lübeck as well as the districts of Ostholstein, Herzogtum Lauenburg, Stormarn and Segeberg, with one case in Hamburg.
- Authorities report the total seizure exceeds 500 kilograms and confirm none of the drugs reached the sales floor.
- Police say the crates were likely misrouted rather than intended for store distribution, pointing to a smuggling plan that faltered at the port.
- The joint narcotics task force of Hamburg customs and Lübeck investigators is leading the probe, with local reports valuing the haul at about €20 million.