INFO LA DEPECHE. Near Toulouse, 4 kg of heroin discovered in a package of children’s toys
Four kilos of heroin were concealed at the bottom of a box of toys, intended to be sent to New Zealand. The alert came from a resident of Cugnaux, who works for an Amazon subcontractor. The gendarmes of the Toulouse-Mirail company are carrying out the investigation.
This is an exceptional drug seizure. This Wednesday, the gendarmes of the Toulouse-Mirail company got their hands on 4kg of heroin! A substance hidden at the bottom of a package containing children’s toys!
The business originates in Cugnaux, south-west of Toulouse. A few months, a resident of the town works for a Chinese company, subcontractor of the American company Amazon. This Haut-Garonnaise with Chinese origins has opened a local branch in her house. Every week, it receives defective parcels which it reconditions before sending them back to the sender.
An attitude that catches his eye
This Wednesday, when a box from the Netherlands was deposited in her garage, this young woman immediately noticed several unusual details. Mainly, the package did not have an “Amazon” label, unlike all the others. Then, and above all, her boss called her directly from China to ask her to forward this package to New Zealand as a priority. A more than bizarre approach addressed to this autoentrepreneur accustomed to processing her shipments with longer deadlines.
And this attitude had the gift of arousing the curiosity of the Cugnalaise. When she weighed the box, this woman quickly realized that it weighed abnormally heavy. Obviously, the Franco-Chinese ended up opening it. She was initially reassured to see that it only included children’s toys. But then she realized that the package wouldn’t be as heavy if it wasn’t hiding something else. After removing its contents, this lady discovered a “false bottom”. This cache was filled with a brownish powder.
She associates that it was a bomb
For fear that it was an explosive, it was carried out at the Cugnaux gendarmerie. After checking, the soldiers assured him that it was not a bomb. The box contains 4 kg of heroin! A product which, on sale, would have brought in nearly €130,000 for its recipient.
Following this unlikely discovery, a search was conducted at the thought, but nothing came of it. The scientific police are currently trying to take DNA from the package to follow the trail to the senders. In the meantime, the drug should be destroyed by the authorities.
In recent years, the police of Haute-Garonne had never got their hands on such a quantity of heroin. In February 2021, for example, the gendarmes of the Villefranche-de-Lauragais research brigade had dismantled a major heroin trafficking organized by Albanians in Lauragais.. But that day, they had recovered “only” 1kg of goods.