Key legal question
Whether pretrial detention was admissible on grounds of repetition risk under Art. 221(1)(c) StPO
Extracted holding
Repetition risk was established: the defendant had prior similar drug offences, was under strong suspicion of new similar offences, and the number of offences—not the number of convictions—controls the assessment.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that Art. 221(1)(c) StPO requires earlier similar crimes or serious offences already committed, proven with near certainty. A prior conviction may show several offences. Here, the earlier conviction, the new witness statements, the house search, and telephone intercepts supported a very unfavorable prognosis.