If the weapons tend to "speak" in the cities, they arrive there only in small quantities, according to the "operational" needs of the criminals.
The crackdown that the Banditry Repression Brigade (BRB) has just signed, by seizing, last Tuesday, an arsenal of more than one ton and arresting a dozen traffickers including soldiers, is in this exceptional capacity.
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Unlike a consumable product such as narcotics where the customer is always in demand, weapons are only delivered in response to very specific orders
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said the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police.
The traffic of calibers is all the more fragmented as it is not profitable: "
a kilo of cocaine costs between 25,000 and 30,000 euros, that is to say about the price of ten Kalashnikov-type assault rifles sold for 2,500 euros each with two magazines,
”explains a specialized police officer, who estimates that 'a stocked automatic pistol is hauling around
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