- Police check bus with festival guests - drug found
Police at a rest stop in Rhineland-Palatinate checked 36 visitors of the Electro and Techno Festival Nature One - and found various drugs. The young adults from the Freiburg area were traveling back to Baden-Württemberg by bus, as reported by the Edenkoben police station.
The bus had paused at the rest stop Pfälzer Weinstraße West. Some of the travelers were at the playground. Police observed a person who hid a bag upon the arrival of the law enforcement officers. The officers found a small packet with white powder. A quick test came back positive for cocaine, it was reported. A small amount of amphetamine was found with another festival-goer.
Cocaine, ecstasy, and amphetamine in luggage
Many police officers and federal police officers systematically checked the travelers - assisted by a drug-sniffing dog. The luggage and the travel bus were searched for further drugs. The officers found, according to the reports, small amounts of narcotics with three more people: including 2.3 grams of cocaine, 10.3 grams of amphetamine, and one ecstasy tablet. Charges were filed for violating the narcotics law.
At the festival Nature One in Kastellaun in the Rhein-Hunsrück district, about 50,000 people celebrated, according to the event organizer I-Motion.
The discovered drugs included cocaine, ecstasy, and amphetamine, highlighting the prevalence of illicit substances among some festival-goers. The police continued their search for more drugs within the travelers' luggage and the bus.
