Overview

• Authorities in Oberbayern Süd have recorded six suspected K.-o.-Tropfen incidents at festivals in early August, including cases in Oberhaching, Otterfing and Truchtlaching.
• Liquid incapacitating drugs such as GHB, GBL and BDO act within minutes and remain detectable in blood or urine for only a few hours, making prompt testing essential.
• Policeoberkommissar Daniel Katz warns of a “brutal high” dark figure of unreported cases due to victims’ shame and memory gaps that hinder prosecutions.
• Federal and state crime prevention units advise partygoers to only handle their own drinks, stay in groups and seek immediate medical help at the first sign of intoxication.
• The Bundeskabinett approved on July 2 a draft law to ban GBL and BDO, while proposals to reclassify liquid drugs as dangerous tools and increase minimum sentences are under federal review.