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A year after the fatal sip from a champagne bottle: more bottles of ecstasy discovered

2023-02-09T15:09:47.029Z


In February 2022, a man died in a restaurant in the Upper Palatinate after sipping from a champagne bottle. More bottles of ecstasy have now been discovered.


In February 2022, a man died in a restaurant in the Upper Palatinate after sipping from a champagne bottle.

More bottles of ecstasy have now been discovered.

Weiden – A clique of friends from the Upper Palatinate is in the mood for champagne, but the evening ends fatally for one of them: the bottle contained liquid ecstasy instead of champagne.

In the meantime, other poisoned bottles have been withdrawn from circulation.

Drug in champagne bottle - More bottles with ecstasy active ingredient discovered

After the fall of a bottle filled with ecstasy instead of champagne in a restaurant in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, further poisoned bottles have appeared.

Several champagne bottles, which were also filled with the liquid drug, were seized nationwide.

That said a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office of the German Press Agency.

Together with customs, the case will be determined Europe-wide.

Flashback: On the night of February 13, 2022, eight men in Weiden drank champagne together from a bottle.

Instead of champagne, it was filled with the liquid ecstasy drug MDMA.

One man died and seven were injured.

Just a few days later there was a similar incident in the Netherlands with four injured.

The landlord in Weiden had ordered the champagne bottle on the Internet and is not considered a suspect, as the spokesman for the authorities emphasized again.

"It was a tragic coincidence." It could have happened to another restaurant or private individuals.

For tactical reasons, the spokesman did not want to reveal details of the investigation.

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Drug in champagne - More bottles of ecstasy discovered

The other bottles appeared because people had contacted the authorities with information about suspicious bottles.

When a man opened a bottle, for example, he noticed that the contents were not bubbling as usual.

According to the prosecutor, it cannot be ruled out that other bottles filled with MDMA are in circulation.

The Federal Office for Consumer Protection had already warned against consuming bottles from two specific batches last year.

Specifically, it's about three-liter bottles of Moët & Chandon Ice Impérial with lot code

LAJ7QAB6780004

and

LAK5SAA6490005

, to be found on the label on the back of the bottle.

Consumer protection warns against ecstasy in champagne bottles

Poison champagne warning: 'Taking a small sip can kill'

If the contents of the bottle - unlike champagne - do not bubble and have a reddish-brown color and smell of anise, they should not be drunk.

"Don't try anything," the agency warned.

Even tasting it without swallowing it could lead to serious health problems.

"Taking a small sip can be fatal," the warning said.

(came/dpa)

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