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600 raids in Europe for date-rape drug



By AP
09 July 2008 @ 05:39 am EST

BERLIN - German investigators say raids have been carried out on 600 homes in Austria, Switzerland and Germany seeking chemicals used to produce an illicit date-rape drug.

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State investigators in Bavaria say police raided houses and apartments early Wednesday morning after a monthslong investigation.

Investigators were tipped off by suspicious online orders for GBL, a chemical found in industrial cleaners. The legal chemical can be used to manufacture GHB, a potent depressant sometimes called the date-rape drug.

The GBL orders were placed to a chemical company near Munich and another in northern Germany.

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