Toulouse customs chain record seizures
With the start of the school year, drug trafficking also seems to have picked up again. Since the beginning of September, the Customs services of the Regional Directorate of Toulouse multiplied large-scale cases. The brigade draws up a first assessment.
Among the most striking cases, some broke out at theToulouse Blagnac airport. On September 27, “the agents of the customs brigade checked a passenger of Brazilian nationality, coming from Sao Paulo via Amsterdam”, indicates the regional management of Toulouse. A control which made it possible to discover three bottles of alcohol containing liquid cocaine, i.e. a total weight of nearly 5 kg.
Record seizure at Toulouse-Blagnac airport
A few days later, on October 3, customs proceeded to seize the largest ever at Toulouse airport : approximately 20 kg of cocaine packaged in 17 loaves discovered in the suitcase of a passenger coming from Guyana and having made a stopover in Paris. According to the Toulouse prosecutor’s office, the goods arrive between 650,000 euros wholesale and 1,300,000 euros retail.
Elsewhere in Occitania, the customs officers of the Millau brigade also had to do. On September 21, they checked “a truck group coming from Morocco via Spain”. While a dog anti-narcotics service stopped near the tank of the vehicle, nearly 120 kg of cannabis pollen were discovered during the search, “a seizure valued at 1,200,000 euros” according to customs.
More than 3 million euros worth of cannabis pollen
The next day, the officials of Millau were again confronted with an important discovery: “10 Moroccan suitcases all containing cannabis pollen, for a total weight of 327 kg, in a refrigerated truck from Spain”. A seizure of an estimated amount of 3,270,000 euros on the market.
More recently, on October 6, Millau customs officers thwarted “the plans of a criminal organization by intercepting a vehicle loaded with 190 kg of manufactured tobacco”. Goods equivalent to 950 cartons of cigarettes or 9,500 contraband packets.
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