Man held after Gare patrol found 57 bags holding 300 g of cannabis
A police patrol in Luxembourg City's Gare neighbourhood chased down and arrested a man on 15 May 2023, seizing 57 bags containing 300 grams of cannabis, five phones and €707 in cash. An examining magistrate issued an arrest warrant a day later, when the prosecutor ordered him detained.
🇱🇺 Gare neighbourhood, Luxembourg City · Luxembourg
A police patrol intercepted a man suspected of drug trafficking in the Gare
neighbourhood of Luxembourg City on the afternoon of Monday 15 May 2023.[1]The man spotted the officers and fled, and the patrol caught him after a short
chase.[1]
At the police station officers seized 57 plastic bags holding a total of 300
grams of cannabis, five mobile phones and €707 in cash.[1]During his flight
the man had thrown away 16 cocaine pellets and a further 22 grams of cannabis.[1]
The public prosecutor’s office ordered that he be held in detention, and he was
arrested on its orders.[2]He appeared before an examining magistrate on
Tuesday, and the magistrate issued an arrest warrant against him.[2]
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Arrested
1
Cannabis
300 g
Cash confiscated
EUR 707
Agencies
Police grand-ducale; Parquet
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (300 g)
Activity
Sale, Possession
Setting
Street or public place
Charge
drug trafficking
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Luxembourg District
Sources
RTL Todaytoday.rtl.luCaught with 57 bags of cannabis: Suspected drug dealer arrested in Gare neighbourhood
RTL Infosinfos.rtl.luFRSurpris avec 57 sachets de cannabisUn dealer présumé arrêté dans le quartier de la Gare à Luxembourg
Open questions the AI reported
The incident date comes from the text's "Monday afternoon"; the two RTL reports were published on Wednesday 17 May 2023 and give no calendar date for the chase, so 15 May 2023 is used as the Monday.
kg_seized records only the 300 grams found in the 57 bags; the further 22 grams the man threw away during his flight is a separate approximate amount and is not added to it.
The 16 cocaine pellets are outside the tracker's scope and no weight for them is reported, so no cocaine figure is recorded.
No age, nationality, charge under a named provision or later court outcome for the man was published in the two accounts.
The photos on both RTL pages are credited only to the Luxembourg police, with no caption stating what they show.
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