A house in Sant Pol de Marin the region of Maresme, with 50 beds and 23 people inside. They all participated in a neoshamanic ritualin which they were supplied psychoactive substances prohibited and dangerous for health. Specific, ayahuasca, buffo toad, kambo frog and mescaline. The authorities burst into the place just as the celebration was about to begin and arrested two people for crimes of membership in a criminal group, smuggling, drug traffic and professional intrusion, as well as violating the immigration law, the National Police reported in a statement this Sunday.
Agents of the police force and officials of Customs Surveillance of the Tax agency, in a joint operation, carried out the operation, the date of which has not been disclosed. The investigators broke into the house when the ritual was beginning and, in addition to the confiscated drugs, they intervened 4,000 euros and 2,000 dollars Americans in cash, multiple instruments for the consumption of these substances and weighing scaleshas detailed body.
In addition, it was possible to intercept a postage that one of the detainees had just delivered with almost a kilo of mescaline, an internationally controlled narcotic.
“The object of the investigation was focused on dismantling a group dedicated, allegedly, to the smuggling of substances that cause serious damage to health and that were supplied through organized meetings at a low price,” the press release specifies. The group promoted itself through social networks and web pages. “The participants, under the effects of these substances, become more vulnerable and manipulablewhich makes it easier for them to be recruited and linked to the group,” the police report.
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This intervention has also had the collaboration of the State Agency for Labor and Social Security Inspection together with the Provincial Immigration and Border Brigade of Barcelona, having detected the presence of foreign citizens in an irregular situation who performed different tasks, such as cooking, maintenance, administration or advertising, without a legal contractnor high in terms of Social Security.
The operation, coordinated by the General Information Commissioner, has been carried out by the regional Customs Surveillance operational areas of Madrid and Barcelona and the Barcelona Provincial Information Brigade of the National Police, under the direction of the Court of First Instance and Instruction number one of Arenys de Mar (Barcelona).