108 g hashish seized from car on A4; arrests in Differdange
Luxembourg police found a joint, 11 grams of cannabis and 108 grams of hashish in a car searched at an A4 motorway service station early on Thursday 3 February 2022; one occupant was arrested and two were fined. That afternoon police detained two more people in Differdange, where a group searched on rue Adolphe Krieps yielded a small amount of hashish and a kitchen knife.
🇱🇺 A4 motorway service station and rue Adolphe Krieps, Differdange · Luxembourg
Luxembourg police staged a series of drug checks in Differdange and on the A4
motorway on Thursday.[1]At around 1am, officers investigated a vehicle at a
service station on the A4.[1]A search of the car yielded a joint, 11 grams of
cannabis and 108 grams of hashish.[1]One of the car’s occupants was arrested
by order of the public prosecutor, while the other two occupants received a
fine.[1]The car was seized as part of the investigation.[1]
In Differdange, police staged a larger operation near Parc Gerlache at around
4pm.[1]Officers searched a group of people on rue Adolphe Krieps and
confiscated a small amount of hashish as well as a kitchen knife.[1]One
member of the group was arrested after they drunkenly threatened the officers.[1]Another person was taken into custody after it was discovered they had
broken the law in another country and was on a police watchlist.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article says the checks took place on Thursday and was published 4 February 2022, a Friday, so 3 February 2022 is used as the incident date for both the motorway stop and the Differdange operation.
Only the 11 grams of cannabis and 108 grams of hashish from the car are recorded as 0.119 kg; the joint and the Differdange small amount of hashish were not weighed and are excluded from figures.
No ages, nationalities or names of the arrested or detained people were published, and the amount of the fines on the two other car occupants was not given.
The country in which the watchlisted person had broken the law was not named, and it is not stated whether that person or the other arrested people were later charged.
No court outcome for any of the three detentions was reported.
Only one accessible report of these checks was found.
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Luxembourg police checked eight people, mostly adolescents, behaving suspiciously on rue du Fort Dumoulin in the capital after midnight on 8 August 2026, seizing a quantity of marijuana along with a knife and pepper spray. The prosecutor ordered the seizure of the illegal items and a phone, and a report was drawn up.
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