Small marijuana find on Romanian passenger during A3 check near Passau
Border police on the A 3 motorway near Passau found a small amount of marijuana on a 23-year-old Romanian passenger during a check of a car travelling from the Netherlands to Romania. Officers seized the cannabis and opened an investigation against the woman because taking cannabis into and out of Germany remains punishable, then let both travellers continue.
🇩🇪 A 3 near Passau, Bavaria · Germany
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Two Romanian women were driving through Germany from the Netherlands towards
Romania when border-investigation officers stopped their car on the A 3 motorway
near Passau on Sunday afternoon.[1]
The officers found a small amount of marijuana on the 23-year-old passenger.[1]Officers seized the cannabis, which the Passau border police account
describes as a narcotic, because taking cannabis into and out of Germany remains
a punishable offence.[1]
An investigation was opened against the woman.[1]Neither woman was detained,
and both were allowed to continue their journey after the check.[1]
The account was published by the Passau border police inspectorate.[1]The
check was carried out by Schleierfahnder, the border police officers who run
dragnet checks on routes near the border.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The report gives no exact weight for the marijuana, describing it only as a Kleinmenge (small amount), so no cannabis figure is recorded.
The report dates the check only as Sunday afternoon; 8 November 2026 is the Sunday before the 9 November publication date, and no separate incident date is published.
The women are described by nationality and age only; no names, charges under a specific law section, plea or court outcome were reported.
The page's header and related-thumbnail images are all labelled Symbolbild (symbolic image), so no photo of this check or seizure is listed as media.
Only one openable account of this event was found; a search for a second report or the Passau border police press release in German produced no accessible result.
The page also lists other, separate Passau cannabis checks from October, September and April 2026; those are different events and are left out of this report.
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