Four operators of the Haus Linde care home in Braunschweig, Germany, have gone on trial on charges including unlawful imprisonment, mistreatment of vulnerable persons, and organised fraud, after prosecutors allege they systematically over-sedated residents to make them more compliant and to fraudulently inflate their care-dependency classifications for higher state payments. According to the indictment, residents who were mobile on arrival were quickly placed on escalating doses of sedatives and antipsychotics — based on false reports to family doctors that they were agitated or aggressive — leaving some bedridden within months. Police surveillance recordings revealed that the home's owners monitored operations daily by phone, often from their holiday property in Mallorca, Spain, pointing to what prosecutors described as a comprehensive regime of control stretching from at least 2017 to 2020, when a raid was carried out.