Ecstasy-laced Moet & Chandon champagne issued warning after drunkard’s death in Germany and 11 others in Europe
- Four people in Holland have fallen ill after drinking from a £365 counterfeit bottle.
- Eight people were hospitalized in Germany after drinking from a three-liter bottle
- Authorities don’t know why they were raised and if there are more in circulation
Champagne drinkers in the Netherlands have been urged to check their bottles after a man died after swallowing ecstasy-laced Moet & Chandon.
Champagne drinkers in the Netherlands have been warned to check their bottles after a man died after swallowing ecstasy-laced Moet & Chandon.
Four people fell ill after drinking from a £365 counterfeit bottle. Dutch health authorities said.
This happened after eight people were hospitalized in Germany after receiving a three-liter bottle at a restaurant on February 13, when a 52-year-old man died from strong alcohol.
The bottles were purchased from the same website, but authorities don’t know why the spikes were added to them or if there are others in circulation.
The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority stated: “Recently, both in Germany and the Netherlands, a bottle [three-litre Moët & Chandon Ice Imperial] It was found to be filled with the hard drug MDMA (also known as ecstasy).
“Touching the contents of the bottles and / or drinking them is life-threatening. This resulted in seven very serious illnesses and one death in Germany.
“According to the producer, there have been four cases in the Netherlands. In both cases, the affected bottles were purchased through a hitherto unknown website.”
This week, manufacturer Moet Hennessy informed the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority of the falsified bottles.
How and why the drug ended up in these bottles is unknown.
Photo: The label of a fake bottle found in the Netherlands, where four people fell ill from ecstasy
He continued: “Therefore, the NVWA cannot assess whether these bottles containing the hazardous substance are still in circulation.
“It cannot be ruled out that there are other bottles of the same brand in circulation that also contain MDMA.”
Dutch buyers of bottles with the code LAJ7QAB6780004 at the bottom of the label were asked to be careful.
MDMA is reddish brown in liquid and will solidify over time. It also produces an anise flavor that is different from champagne.
The bottles that led to the death of a man in Weiden, Bavaria, also hospitalized seven other people aged between 33 and 52.
German police continue to investigate how the substance got into the bottle, suspecting negligent homicide.
A man named Harald Georg Z. met eight friends at the La Vita restaurant in Weiden, Germany (pictured) when the group ordered a £430 bottle of champagne.
Georg Z died shortly after being admitted to hospital on Sunday evening, and the results of a toxic-chemical investigation are currently pending.
The deceased, locally known as Harald Georg Z., met with eight friends in la Vita restaurant in Weiden, Germany when the group ordered a bottle of champagne.
One of the attendees appeared as a contestant on the dating TV show Take Me Out and the group decided to celebrate.
However, shortly after the bottle was “opened at the table”, all the guests developed extreme symptoms of poisoning in the form of “convulsions and foaming at the mouth”.
Project leader Georg Z. took a “long sip of champagne” and “passed out foaming at the mouth,” according to witness statements published by the German news site Bild.
“It had things in it that you don’t usually find in champagne.” This was stated by senior prosecutor Gerd Schaefer. “It had a toxic, poisonous effect.”
Police reports suggested that a three-liter bottle of champagne contained 1,000 times the “normal” dose of ecstasy and is believed to have contained a lethal dose of MDMA.