Faced with the problem of "mules", the authorities remain on alert.
This Sunday, the customs officers of Nogent-sur-Oise arrested a Dutchman at the Chamant toll, on the A1 motorway, who had ingested nearly 1.2 kg of cocaine.
Tried at the Senlis court on Wednesday, the individual received a sentence of 18 months in prison and a fine of € 39,600.
He was also granted a residence ban on French territory for 10 years.
On this day, customs officers carry out checks at the main toll station.
At the end of the morning, they decide to stop a taxi registered in France.
On board, the driver and a passenger from the Netherlands.
It arrives at Orly airport after a flight from Cayenne, Guyana, a path frequently used by mules which transport white powder from the South American continent to Europe.
Third such arrest since the start of the year
"The checks undertaken show that the passenger has swallowed a large number of eggs", specifies the regional customs department.
Taken to hospital, the individual expels more than a kilo of cocaine that he ingested in the form of a hundred eggs before being handed over to investigators from the Creil judicial police.
"Since the beginning of the year, this is the third time that the customs brigades of the Amiens department have intercepted cocaine smugglers arriving from Guyana", recalls the customs services.
On January 18, a 48-year-old Dutchman was arrested with 1 kg of cocaine in his stomach, under the same conditions, still at the Chamant tollgate.
He had been sentenced to two years in prison.