In the evening of 23 January 2025 a police patrol on the A4 stopped a grey car driving with only its sidelights on.[1] A second driver mistaken the police stop signals for himself and followed the patrol, then told officers he had seen the grey car’s driver throw a backpack out of the window.[1] The officers found a plastic bag resembling cannabis under the passenger seat and two more in the driver’s jacket pockets.[1] A black backpack found on the motorway was full of drugs, and police seized 18 plastic bags of marijuana and hashish weighing more than 800 grams that evening.[1]

He answered for his actions before Luxembourg’s district court in early June.[1] The ninth criminal chamber acquitted him of smuggling the drugs from France into Luxembourg, finding no proof that he had crossed the border with them.[1] The court did find proven that he had put narcotics into circulation and transported them.[1] The court sentenced him to two years in prison, entirely suspended, and banned him from driving for 18 months, also suspended.[1] He was also ordered to pay procedural costs of a little over 2,000 euros and a fine of 1,500 euros.[1]