Drugslabo rolled up in aardbeienkwekerij

Beveren The federal judicial police has a large drugslabo dismantled in a aardbeienkwekerij in the Varenstraat in Melsele. It was a very large lab, that was good for a production of some hundreds of litres of amphetamines per day. During the decommissioning were as many as eleven trucks to all products and materials to dispose of. The 52-year-old aardbeiteler Herman V. O. is held.

The aardbeikweker is probably in the drugswereldje rolled through his contacts with a Hilly colleague who is now also behind bars. The two had already suspected made by large ornamental to do with money that they are impossible could have earned with merely the cultivation of vegetables and fruit. Also in the vicinity of the horticultural farm found it strange that there is often so much activity, even in calmer periods in which no crops were.

The local police of the zone Waasland-North had this reported to the federal judicial police of East Flanders in which the case took over and a large study started in which also the telephone was bugged. This eventually led to a raid early this month. On Thursday, december 6 was a search warrant executed in the aardbeienkwekerij in the Varenstraat. The officers found two very professional druglabo's and a warehouse for products, and barrels with waste products of drug production. In the lab, a raw material for amphetamines produced. Amphetamines are used for the production of speed.

Hundreds of liters per day

The C. R. U (Clan Lab Response Unit) was present during the search. “According to them, is a large laboratory with a production of several hundred litres per day,” says parketwoordvoerster An Schoonjans. “By the Civil Protection, there are a total of eleven trucks with products and material transported to a waste processing company, where it was destroyed.” The Federal Agency for the Safety of the food Chain (FASFC) was present in fruit and vegetables under precautionary attachment, place and in the meantime, it was also destroyed because there may be a contamination of the toxic and chemical goods in it layers loadings of the drugslabo. The production of amphetamines is not without risk. There is sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid for. Especially the mixing of such substances is very dangerous. There may be explosions occur or toxic fumes. In this warehouse there were two labs furnished, perhaps for the production of two different types of drugs.