"It is well-known that in street trading, physical assaults can occur among those involved. Buyers and sellers appreciate the low risk of detection as well as the absence of violence. Why drug trafficking via the internet is attractive was made clear in a 2017 Europol study: For consumers, the decisive factors are choice, easy availability, and high quality, write the Europol authors. The second season of the Netflix series "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)," produced in Germany, started at the end of July. In any case, online dealers have long since arrived in popular culture. Accordingly, the crime statistics for 2018 show a 27.5% increase in "drug offenses in connection with the internet as a means of committing crimes" compared to 2017. "Drug trafficking on the internet has now established itself as a permanent distribution channel for drugs in Germany," says the drug situation report published last September by the federal police. This is how drugs were offered on the darknet platform 'Dream Market' before it was closed down Image: Dream Market 'How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast)' And with perpetrators who did not know each other personally, but only their online pseudonyms and nicknames, as prosecutor Bussweiler points out. "In this respect, the investigations were able to trace far-reaching structures within the online drug scene," the Frankfurt public prosecutor reported.Ĭhemical Revolution was unearthed in the spring of 2019 in an operation that could have come from the script of a crime thriller: With undercover investigators and fake drug purchases with insiders who collaborated with the police with international networks and a young German principal offender who controlled the fate of the drug empire from the holiday island of Mallorca. The defendants are said to have acted "at different points within the supply chain," prosecutor Julia Bussweiler from the Central Office for Combating Internet Crime in Frankfurt told DW - from the administrator of the platform to organizers to couriers and sales staff who are said to have taken care of the packaging and shipping of the drugs. Online drug shops send their goods discreetly packaged Image: BKA Like a thriller Because of the many parties involved in the proceedings, the trial will be moved to Giessen's congress hall. Only seven defendants will initially be tried at the regional court in Giessen, central Germany, starting Wednesday. The defendants are said to have gained more than one million euros ($1.2 million) from Germany's largest online drug trade. The trial promises to be spectacular if only because of the quantities involved: According to the state prosecutors in Frankfurt, the eleven defendants trafficked more than 130 kilos (287 pounds) of amphetamines, 42 kilos of cannabis, 17 kilos of crystalline ecstasy, 6 kilos of cocaine, and kilos of heroin via their trading platform "Chemical Revolution" on the Darknet between September 2017 and February 2019.
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