Police in Frankfurt carried out a large-scale operation in the Bahnhofsviertel, checking more than 420 people and detaining seven people in deportation custody. The raid took place on Wednesday as part of the city’s “city centre offensive”, targeting alleged drug dealing and breaches of residence rules. Officers launched 46 investigation proceedings and delivered 12 people to police cells, while two arrest warrants were executed. Police identified 36 breaches of the Residence Act. In addition, five criminal cases were opened on suspicion of unlawful drug dealing. Officers seized narcotics including cannabis products and prescription medication. Checks focused on the drug scene in the station-area, around Konstablerwache and Allerheiligenviertel, as well as multiple restaurants and bars. Officers also carried out traffic checks, including enforcement related to the use of e-scooters on Zeil. Plainclothes investigators identified two suspects using wanted photos. The two men, aged 20 and 40, are suspected of theft the previous day on a train at Fulda station, with damage assessed at more than 9,000 euros. In a separate case, plainclothes officers searched a hotel room in the Bahnhofsviertel and found nearly 3,000 capsules of the medicine pregabalin and more than 300 grams of hashish. The suspect was arrested shortly afterwards in the same area. Hessian Interior Minister Roman Poseck said police were acting consistently against offenders and that the seven people taken into deportation custody are to be sent abroad “soon”.