Haute-Garonne: to smuggle drugs from Paris to Toulouse, the trafficker pockets €2,000 per trip
Arrested at the Matabiau station, in Toulouse, this Saturday, the Guyanese who was carrying 3.5 kg of cocaine in his luggage was referred to the Toulouse prosecutor’s office. He is expected to be tried on Wednesday.
Sitting on a bench, he blends in perfectly with the other passengers on the train from Paris to Toulouse. For several weeks, this 29-year-old Guyanese transported ten kilos of drugs from the capital to the Capitol. The man apprehended this Saturday around 1 p.m. at Matabiau station, with 3.5 kg of cocaine in his luggage, was finally brought to the Toulouse prosecutor’s office yesterday.
The 72 hours spent before the investigators of the Anti-Narcotics Office (OFAST) made it possible to learn more about this former computer science student.
At least seven passages
This individual has lived for a few years in Lille, in the north of France. He leads an uneventful life there until the day when old friends contact him from Suriname. These men need him and want them to participate in organized drug trafficking between Île de France and Haute-Garonne. The offer is tempting. Too much for him to refuse. After all, his employees “simply” ask him to transport the drugs by train between Paris and Toulouse to receive the tidy sum of €2,000 per trip.
The first test goes smoothly. Finally, the suspect thinks that the case is rather easy to carry out. In the space of a few months, he carried cocaine at least seven times and allegedly pocketed nearly €10,000. And to go unnoticed, he is very inventive. He empties shampoo bottles and replaces the liquid with the white powder. Arrived in Toulouse, this man stays “never more than three days” in a hotel. From his room, he uses social networks to warn customers.
During his brief visit to the Pink City, local traffickers join him to recover the illicit substance and then leave incognito.
It should be judged by immediate comparison
Without the vigilance of the DTPJ teams, this cocaine would certainly have continued to circulate between the two French cities. But the “mule” was intercepted on Saturday in the Matabiau station.
After his interrogation, the respondent, assisted by Me Alexandre Parra-Bruguière, was temporarily imprisoned. His trial in immediate comparison, before the criminal court, should take place this Wednesday. In the meantime, his lawyer declined to comment. “I have not read the procedure,” he says.