Two people now arrested for supplying fatal jimson weed at Getafe rave

Two people thought to have supplied the stramonium, or jimson weed, at a rave party in Getafe last weekend which caused the death of two people have been arrested by police. El Mundo names them as 23 year old Iván M.G., and his 19 year old girlfriend, Cristina V.L., and says they were arrested in Coslada on Wednesday evening.

Pablo E.L. and Alberto O.G., both aged 18, were buried in the cemetery in La Almudena on Wednesday. Friends who attended the rave with them told police that another man at the party had offered them a liquid which he said produced effects similar to hallucinogenic mushrooms. The autopsies confirmed the presence of both alcohol and stramonium in the teenagers’ bodies. El Mundo notes that a minimal dose of stramonium causes poisoning and hallucinations similar to LSD, but a larger dose will kill.

Another youngster who was taken ill and who was in Intensive Care for a time was discharged from hospital on Wednesday.

Initial investigations indicate that the two suspects each took a small bottle of stramonium infusion which they had made at home with them to the rave and were offering it free to ‘open up the market’.

Jimson weed is a relatively common weed in Spain. A team from Getafe Town Hall has started clearing up the area around the abandoned building where the rave was held and had removed some 300 plants by Wednesday afternoon. The local council is also studying the possibility of demolishing the building.