Cocaine investigations against Eintracht President Peter Fischer dropped

The public prosecutor’s office has dropped the investigation into President Peter Fischer of Eintracht Frankfurt on suspicion of acquiring and possessing cocaine. This was announced by chief public prosecutor Nadja Niesen almost two months after a search in the 67-year-old’s house.

After the investigation was completed, “there was still an initial suspicion of a violation of the Narcotics Act. Ultimately, however, this could not be substantiated against any of the accused in the sense of sufficient suspicion,” wrote Niesen in a statement on Thursday.

At the beginning of February, the public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt initiated investigations against the SBU President and his wife and elder son. Fischer had vehemently rejected the allegations against him through his lawyers.

The suspects were accused of “obtaining illegal cocaine” and storing it in their home in such a way that their 13-year-old son had access to it. According to prosecutors, Fischer’s son is said to have brought cocaine to school and consumed it with a friend. A hair sample is said to have confirmed that the school friend had repeatedly consumed cocaine.

During a search at the end of January, “white residue” was also found in a bedside table drawer in Fischer’s house. A rapid test reacted positively to cocaine, the prosecutor wrote.

An unequivocal assignment to one of the four suspects was “not possible”. It was not possible to determine “at what point in time the adult suspect procured or acquired what specific quantity of drugs and subsequently owned them”.

Fischer had vehemently rejected the allegations of illegal drug possession raised against him through his lawyers. According to a press release by Fischer’s lawyers Marko Spänle and Stefan Bernhard-Eckel, it was a “character assassination campaign”.