A German pizzeria has been shut down after being exposed for distributing cocaine alongside one of their most popular pizzas.
The establishment, located in Düsseldorf, had been secretly sending out its famous ‘pizza no.40’ along with packets of cocaine until law enforcement intervened.
Officials detained the 36-year-old manager, who attempted to get rid of a stash of drugs by throwing it out of the window when officers arrived at his residence. Unfortunately for him, the bag landed directly in the hands of one of the police officers.
Only days after being released from police custody, the same manager resumed offering the drug-enhanced pizza, which led to the capture of 15 additional individuals connected to the illegal operation.
The drugs were cleverly hidden beneath the pizza, with Chief Inspector Michael Graf von Moltke revealing that police had been monitoring the restaurant for some time after food inspectors found drugs in the kitchen earlier this year.
He expressed surprise, saying: “It was one of the top-selling pizzas. This was news to us, as the owner had never been involved in drug-related crimes before.”
Ironically, the restaurant’s slogan was “We deliver everything to your door,” which in this case, also meant cocaine.
In an unrelated report from 2018, it was revealed that in parts of England and Scotland, cocaine deliveries were faster than pizza. Over a third of the thousand cocaine users surveyed in England, and more than 500 in Scotland, claimed they could have the drug delivered in under 30 minutes.
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For comparison, 36.8% of respondents in England and 37.4% in Scotland reported receiving cocaine in under 30 minutes, ranking them fifth and sixth globally for fastest cocaine deliveries.
This was faster than pizza delivery, with only 12.2% in England and 19.8% in Scotland reporting they could receive a pizza in the same time frame.
Globally, 30.3% of the 15,000 cocaine users surveyed in the 2018 Global Drug Survey said they could obtain the drug within half an hour, while only 16.5% said they could get pizza delivered in the same time span.
