Overview

• Prosecutors in Stuttgart filed indictments against eight suspects linked to a Calabrian 'Ndrangheta network focused on the Stuttgart region.
• An Aalen police officer is charged with breaching official secrets and supporting a foreign criminal organization by querying police databases in January 2022 and passing on a license plate result and personal data.
• The officer also faces a count of attempted incitement to murder over an alleged plan to have a superior violently attacked in April 2022, which was never carried out.
• Seven additional men are accused of crimes including narcotics offenses and acts of violence connected to the network.
• The Landgericht Stuttgart has not yet decided whether to open the trial, while April 1 searches covered 40 locations and resulted in 34 arrests in Germany and Italy, and the officer remains in pretrial custody.