The police have searched arcades and shisha bars in North Rhine-Westphalia. The large-scale operation was directed "against rockers and criminal clan members" Customs officials seized three kilos of untaxed tobacco in a betting shop on Hamborn's Altmarkt.
On the market square, the police searched a car of a 25-year-old and found a "forbidden one-handed knife" and a live, loaded firearm. The weapons were seized, a criminal complaint was filed against the man.