INFO THE DEPECHE. Haute-Garonne: kilos of cocaine arrive by bike from the West Indies
Two men have just been indicted and imprisoned for international cocaine trafficking between the West Indies and Toulouse.
International traffic uses all means of transport. Two men have just been arrested by customs and handed over to the territorial management of the Toulouse judicial police after a large seizure of cocaine. They are indicted and have been imprisoned.
The case begins at Orly airport, in the Paris region, in the middle of last week. Customs officers check luggage containing a competition bike from Saint-Martin, in the West Indies. This bike is furnished with its covers but not only. Inside, the Parisian customs officers found themselves almost 3.5 kg of cocaine.
The owner of the luggage flew via a connection to Toulouse-Blagnac airport. As the investigation begins, the latter, living in the Toulouse suburbs, worried about not finding his bike on his arrival, multiplies the steps to find out where he can be. And he ends up showing up at Blagnac airport with another man. This is where they are both arrested.
Police custody at the PJ
Placed in custody in the premises of the judicial police, these two suspects had to explain themselves. The West Indian, who was setting foot for the first time in metropolitan France, assisted by Me Pierre Debuisson, denied being aware of the presence of drugs in his luggage. This man in his early twenties, a father, had made the trip to settle in France.
The 31-year-old man who accompanies him to Blagnac airport also had to report to custody. Suspected of receiving drugs for several months, he is assisted by Mes Julien Aubry and Séverine Bouchaib. They were both indicted for a large-scale traffic of which this trip would not be the first and whose “pretext” bicycle would be an itinerant means of watering the metropolis in large quantities of cocaine. In this case, the drug, at the price of the Toulouse market, could have returned more than €200,000 to dealers, even after being cut.