Multi-year sentences
Voodoo Drug-Dealing Family Now Behind Bars
On Thursday, a family consisting of a father, mother, and son stood trial at the Linz Regional Court on charges of large-scale drug trafficking. The trio is alleged to have supplied the Linz drug scene with narcotics for years from Wiener Straße. All three were sentenced to prison terms lasting several years.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen Drug investigators scored a major victory in Linz in March. The celebration was so great that the police and the district attorney’s office even held a press conference about it. The reason for the celebration was the dismantling of a massive drug ring that had long been supplying narcotics to the junkie scene in Upper Austria’s capital.
Sub-dealers from Africa
At the center of the operation was a 34-year-old man and his parents, aged 60 and 67, who have African roots. For years, they had been selling drugs in Linz via “runners”—that is, simple couriers from Africa—for which they were sentenced on Thursday at the Linz Regional Court.
Threatened with witchcraft
These couriers were only in Europe for a short time before being replaced. Dealers who were caught refused to cooperate with the police—because the criminal family had threatened to cast a voodoo spell on them and their families if they spilled the beans.
Five, four, and three years
Ultimately, the trap snapped shut in March. Since then, the family trio had been held in pretrial detention—until Thursday’s trial. The trial was originally scheduled to last until 4 p.m., but the final, legally binding sentences were handed down already that morning: five years for the son, three years for the father, and four years in prison for the mother.
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