Fewer people were arrested at Tomorrowland 2025 for drug-related offenses than at last year’s edition.
While the Antwerp Police Department may have had its hands full between a Mainstage fire and political controversy at this year’s edition of Tomorrowland, they detained a smaller number of individuals for drug-related infractions than they did last year.
According to Flemish media outlet VRT, 382 attendees were caught with “user quantities” of various substances throughout the two weekends of the Boom, Belgium festival. In accordance with Belgian law, all were offered on-the-spot amicable settlements that totaled €94,800 — but they had their drugs and wristbands confiscated.
Another 23 individuals suspected of distributing substances weren’t so lucky. This group — which reportedly consists of Belgian, Dutch, German, Polish, British, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Serbian, North Macedonian, and Brazilian individuals — has been summoned to appear in front of an Antwerp Criminal Court on October 22.
Both numbers are down from those of Tomorrowland 2024, when 466 attendees were detained for possession of drugs and another 29 were detained for dealing them. “MDMA, ketamine and cocaine featured in the top three, just like last year,” according to the National Institute for Criminalistics and Criminology (NICC), which tested 661 samples of drugs seized at this year’s festival.
All told, the Antwerp Police reported a total of 481 incidents at Tomorrowland 2025, including offenses like public intoxication and antisocial behavior.
Tomorrowland inaugurated in 2005, at which time it attracted roughly 10,000 revelers for a single-day event. This year’s edition drew some 400,000 dance music fans to catch sets from over 600 artists across 16 stages over the course of its two weekends. Tomorrowland events also take place in Brazil and the French Alps; the event brand even recently shared plans to expand its house and techno-focused CORE brand to stages in Melbourne and Los Angeles.
Tomorrowland has not shared any of the details surrounding its 2026 return to Boom, Belgium.
