Regensburg (dpa/lby) - In a trial about the smuggling of large quantities of amphetamine tablets from illegal drug laboratories abroad, the defenders of the two accused pleaded for prison sentences of six and a half and seven years. So they remained on Monday before the district court in Regensburg under the demands of the public prosecutor. The prosecutor had considered eight and a half and nine and a half years imprisonment as appropriate.
It's about gang trafficking in narcotics in no small amount. At the beginning of the trial, the two accused remained silent, later they admitted the allegations, at least in part. The verdict is scheduled for October 21.
The tablets are said to have been manufactured in drug laboratories in Lebanon or Turkey and looked like the drug Captagon, which is no longer legally produced. In fact, the tablets contained the active ingredient amphetamine instead of fenetylline. Both prosecutors and defense attorneys assumed that the accused did not know this.
The task of the two Syrians is said to have been to hide the tablets in other goods in a warehouse rented in Lower Bavaria and to camouflage them, to bring them by truck to Hamburg or Bremerhaven and to ship them from there to Saudi Arabia.
