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Germany-Based Focus Online is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 17, 2025,

updated Nov 17, 2025

Yesterday: German Media and German Politicians: Working for the Public or Manipulating the Public?

A couple of days ago: BILD is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office, as It's Based on Germany

A few days ago: Prominent German Media Dares Not Mention Cocaine at the European Patent Office, Germany's "Cash Cow" (Seller of Monopolies for the Whole of Europe)

Earlier this month: How German Media Covered Cocainegate at The European Patent Office (EPO)

The European Patent Office (EPO) is reeling. It cannot quite recover from Cocainegate [1, 2]. It hopes people won't notice or simply forget (if they've already noticed). But it's not going to work. The matter is here to stay.

We, collectively, need to press the issue, first to "the press", then to politicians. "Forcing" this issue is essential for democracy and for the Rule of Law. Because the leadership of the EPO right now resembles organised crime, not leadership.

Almost a week ago I wrote to Focus Online "Re: Major story missed" (referring to the EPO connection to a report). It wasn't formulated only by me, it was put together by interested parties:

The Oktoberfest "cocaine bust" was mentioned by Focus Online which referred to the original BILD report. https://www.focus.de/panorama/oktoberfest/wiesn-fahnder-erwischen-spanier-in-flagranti-der-muss-40-000-euro-zahlen_d7c43efd-efb5-4507-862b-d7293f3e212d.html

As in the case of the original BILD report, the Focus Online account does not contain any mention of the EPO connection. It is very likely the the journalists were not aware of this aspect because the "Spaniard" seems to have passed himself off to the Bavarian police as a "tourist".

There is no individual name on the article about the Oktoberfest which is attributed to the Focus Online "editorial team" ("Redaktion").

It should be noted that the person caught was a high-level EPO official, so can the topic be revisited?

See http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/The_Cocaine_Patent_Office_Part_III_European_Patent_Office_Offic.shtml

They never got back to me. Nothing.

"Focus Online is the website of the German weekly news magazine "Focus"," we're told, but some more sites covered the bust without taking note of the EPO connection. We'll contact some more sites next.

If media owned by billionaires chooses what to cover and what not to cover based on the personal interests/preferences of the owner, then there's no effective chain of accountability, no "four pillars" (or five). █