On Tuesday 10 November 2026, officers of the Bundespolizei, Germany’s federal police force, found a 30-year-old Albanian national, a citizen of Albania, on a train while he was travelling without a valid ticket.[1][2][3] The man’s train journey was to Magdeburg, and it ended there with his arrest.[2] He was a passenger when the cannabis was found.[1]

During a search of the backpack he had with him, the officers found several hundred grams of cannabis.[1][2][3] They then seized the cannabis they had found in the backpack he was carrying.[1][3] Beyond that find, the check produced a suspicion that he had entered the federal territory of Germany without permission.[1][2]

On grounds of jurisdiction, the federal officers handed the 30-year-old to officers of the Landespolizei in Magdeburg.[1][2][3] The state force that took him is the police of the Land of Saxony-Anhalt.[1] He was provisionally arrested and brought to a police station so that further police measures could be carried out.[1][2][3] Corresponding criminal proceedings were opened against him.[1][2][3]