1,746 cannabis plants found in a rented house after a landlord’s tip
After a landlord reported his tenants, Luxembourg police found 1,746 indoor cannabis plants and cultivation gear in a house in northern Luxembourg near Belgium on 22 March 2026; two men living there illegally were arrested and remanded in pretrial detention on cultivation, trafficking and money-laundering charges.
🇱🇺 Northern Luxembourg, near the Belgian border · Luxembourg
On 22 March 2026 the Diekirch public prosecutor’s office said the Grand Ducal
Police opened an inquiry after the owner of a rented single-family house reported
a foreign tenant.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]Officers searched the property in northern Luxembourg,
near the Belgian border, and seized 1,746 cannabis plants grown indoors along
with large quantities of cultivation material.[1][2][3][4][5][8][6]
Two suspects who were in Luxembourg illegally and lived in the house to tend the
plants were arrested.[1][2][3][4][5][8][6][7]They appeared before an examining magistrate in
Diekirch on 23 March and were charged under Luxembourg’s 1973 drug law with
cultivating cannabis, putting the drugs into circulation and laundering the
proceeds.[1][2][3][4][8][6]The magistrate issued arrest warrants and both men were held in
pretrial detention.[1][2][4][5][8][6]
The prosecutor said early work by the judicial police narcotics section indicated
they had acted as an association; the investigation was continuing.[1][2][3][6]The
statement was made public on 14 April 2026.[1][2]
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RTL Infosinfos.rtl.luFRNord du Luxembourg: Plus de 1.700 plants de cannabis saisis dans une maison située près de la frontière belge
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The Diekirch prosecutor did not name the municipality; RTL said only that the house was in the north near the Belgian border.
The suspects’ nationalities and names were not published; both were described as foreign nationals in an irregular immigration situation.
Narcotics investigators said the men acted as an association; the prosecutor said analysis of seized data and further checks were continuing to identify possible accomplices.
The Virgule article says the men were presented to the Diekirch examining magistrate the next day without naming 23 March explicitly, so that calendar date continues to rest on the prosecutor statement already cited.
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