Liquid ecstasy and co.

Drug chefs unmasked: apartment building in Vienna evacuated!

The two young men are believed to have produced drugs on a large scale in their kitchen in Landstraße.

(Bild: LPD Wien)

The Viennese police have now discovered that three young men are not just wielding cooking spoons in their kitchen in Landstraße. A self-built drug laboratory including "liquid ecstasy", cannabis and co. was discovered there. After a grenade was found, the entire apartment building was evacuated. 

Two suspects - 20 and 22 years old - actually came to the attention of a task force to combat street crime. The men were provisionally arrested near the Zippererstraße subway station after they tried to sell drugs to a civilian police officer. But the arrest was not all - a house search was quickly carried out on Wednesday, during which the investigators came across a shocking discovery ...

Officers discovered a drug kitchen
The men had not only stored drugs for sale in the apartment of a 24-year-old man on Baumgasse, but had also produced them themselves on a large scale. 1.5 liters of "liquid ecstasy" as well as a large number of medicines and 500 grams of cannabis were seized. The suspects had also built their own drug laboratory in their kitchen.

The house had to be evacuated during the operation in the kitchen. A grenade was also seized.

(Bild: LPD Wien)

"The other residents of the house were evacuated for around an hour while the drugs laboratory, a pyrotechnic object they had made themselves and an allegedly defused grenade found in the apartment were examined," reports police spokesman Philipp Haßlinger.

Suspects reported at large
The 24-year-old - all suspects are from Austria - was also taken away by the officers. After the interrogations, in which the suspects did not confess, charges under the Narcotics Act were filed at large after consultation with the Vienna public prosecutor's office.