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Cannabis plants in an indoor plantation (symbol photo)
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In a former hotel in Mettmann (North Rhine-Westphalia), investigators have discovered an illegal cannabis plantation with hundreds of plants - valued in the millions.
In the rooms of the 300 square meter building, almost all rooms and the bowling alley in the basement had been converted into a plantation, as the police announced.
The officers arrested two men aged 31 and 20 and seized 1,500 plants.
"Unfamiliar activities" in the former hotel had caught the police's attention the days before.
Finally there was a house search on Friday.
In the building, the police met the two men who, according to current knowledge, do not live in Germany.
According to initial estimates by the State Criminal Police Office, the yield from the plantation is likely to have brought up to two million euros a year as "street sales value".
jso / dpa