Police dismantles productionabo for Zombiedrug Flakka: three suspects arrested (Schoten)

The drug laboratory was located in a new -build home, right next to the Lidl supermarket in the Paalstraat in Schoten. The police tracked down the lab, after the police had started to follow a suspicious vehicle. When the investigators invaded in the home, they found a drug laboratory. « It looks like it is a laboratory where Flakka was produced, » said parquet spokesperson Kristof Aerts.

During the raid, local residents saw how a suspicious person tried to flee in a white laboratory suit through the roofs. The man could be picked up. « A total of three arrests were made, » said the public prosecutor.

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The police services received assistance from civil protection and the fire brigade while cleaning up the laboratory. According to local residents, a soap -like scent has been rising from the sewer for some time. The building was sealed after the promotion.

Flakka is a synthetic, hallucinatory drugs that is highly addictive. Users often move uncontrollably, can become extremely aggressive and often fall out of consciousness. Flakka is an increasing scourge in South West Flanders.