LETHAL ecstasy pills with five times the normal dose are being sold to clubbers in Ibiza, police have warned. Clubbers have been warned that Ibiza dealers could be hawking the deadly pills after the potent drugs were found at the house of a robbery suspect. Officers said a single tablet with such a high dosage of MDMA could kill and warned despite the huge drug bust, it was impossible to rule out the possibility more were available on the market.
Authorities confiscated 90 pills during the arrest, all in the shape of a well-known Ibiza party. A source said the logo was Music On, a techno extravaganza now in its fifth season at Amnesia – a superclub that was raided by armed police last month as part of a tax investigation. The drugs were discovered after the arrests of two men accused of robbing nearly £10,000 from a hotel safe.
Spain’s National Police said in a statement: “The National Police in Ibiza has arrested two individuals, a Senegalese man aged 35 and a 24-year-old Moroccan, accused of stealing £9,800 from a hotel safe. The individuals gained the confidence of the victim and whilst one distracted him, the other managed to get into the area where the safe was and took the money inside. Days afterwards when he was arrested, one of the men had £2,985 on him and drugs including 90 ecstasy tablets, 23.79 grams of cocaine, 3.4 grams of MDMA and 48 grams of liquid ecstasy. The really alarming thing about this case is that an ecstasy tablet normally has about 80 milligrams of MDMA and in this case, the 90 pills which imitated the logo of a well-known Ibiza party, had 400mg. This amount is around five times the normal dose and a single tablet can produce death.
“Other serious side-effects include heart attacks, epileptic attacks, cardiac arrhythmia, and seizures as well as hyperthermia where the body temperature rises about 39 degrees Celsius.”
