More than 650 kilos of cannabis pollen were seized Wednesday by customs in Bourges in a truck from Spain going to Belgium, said Friday, December 4 the Regional Customs Directorate of Center-Val de Loire and the prosecutor of the Republic of Bourges.
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The merchandise, with an “
estimated value of 6.5 million euros on the illicit drug resale market
”, is the largest customs seizure of cannabis pollen nationally, in 2020, according to customs .
The drugs were discovered during a check carried out at the A71 tollgate.
She was hidden in the middle of a cargo of textiles.
The agents managed to "
very quickly identify the fraudulent merchandise, crudely hidden in boxes in the middle of the rest of the load,
" said the Regional Customs Directorate in a statement.
The driver, a Romanian national, was taken into police custody.
He was to be presented to the Bourges prosecutor's office on Friday.
The truck "
without any particular link with France
" was coming from Spain and was going to Belgium, indicates Joël Garrigue, public prosecutor of Bourges.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the research section of the gendarmerie of Bourges.