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Woman sues for accidental pot raid

A Bavarian woman is suing police for unlawful search after a reported break-in at her home led authorities to discover 158 cannabis plants in her basement.

Published: 23 October 2014 11:26 CEST
Woman sues for accidental pot raid
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Police responded to reports of a burglary at the house in Vohburg an der Donau near Ingolstadt after the 31-year-old's son jumped out the window and ran to the neighbour's house because he was worried about a burglar.

The 12 year old was home sick and his mother was away for 10 minutes, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.

Four police cars responded to the call.

As a result, despite the resident's protests and insistence that no one was in the home other than those that were supposed to be, police insisted they ensure the house was clear, the chief police inspector told the Regensburg court on Wednesday.

It was during this sweep through the house, that police discovered the cannabis plantation.

The house had been under suspicion before, as an anonymous letter sent to police claimed that the resident was a drug dealer.

The letter said that she owned a Mercedes despite being unemployed.

Neither the woman nor her boyfriend, who rent the house, could be charged in the case as police could not determine who owned the plants, which were destroyed after being discovered. 

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Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country's leaders decried as a threat to democracy.

Published: 5 May 2024 12:52 CEST
Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

The teenager reported to police in the eastern city of Dresden early Sunday morning and said he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician”, police said in a statement.

Matthias Ecke, 41, European parliament lawmaker for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), was set upon by four attackers as he put up EU election posters in Dresden on Friday night, according to police.

Ecke was “seriously injured” and required an operation after the attack, his party said.

Scholz on Saturday condemned the attack as a threat to democracy.

“We must never accept such acts of violence,” he said.

Ecke, who is head of the SPD’s European election list in the Saxony region, was just the latest political target to be attacked in Germany.

Police said a 28-year-old man putting up posters for the Greens had been “punched” and “kicked” earlier in the evening on the same Dresden street.

Last week two Greens deputies were abused while campaigning in Essen in western Germany and another was surrounded by dozens of demonstrators in her car in the east of the country.

According to provisional police figures, 2,790 crimes were committed against politicians in Germany in 2023, up from 1,806 the previous year, but less than the 2,840 recorded in 2021, when legislative elections took place.

A group of activists against the far right has called for demonstrations against the attack on Ecke in Dresden and Berlin on Sunday, Der Spiegel magazine said.

According to the Tagesspiegel newspaper, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is planning to call a special conference with Germany’s regional interior ministers next week to address violence against politicians.

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