The drugs were in the spare tire.
Last Sunday November 28, customs intercepted on the A28 motorway in Seine-Maritime, in the Quincampoix area, a large quantity of illicit substances in a couple's car.
According to France Bleu, the defendants were tried in immediate appearance yesterday Thursday, December 2.
The 29-year-old man was sentenced to three years in prison, with a committal warrant, and his 30-year-old partner to a one-year suspended prison sentence.
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The man also received a customs fine of 200,000 euros. He was in possession of over nine kilograms of heroin, one kilogram of ecstasy, and over 500 grams of cocaine, hidden in the spare tire of the car. According to the elements cited in court and noted by France Bleu, it was his Rennes dealer who suggested that he make a delivery from Antwerp to Belgium, the respondent himself smoking 10 to 12 cannabis joints daily. Commercial, he has a rather versatile Volkswagen Golf.
The trip was to bring him 3000 euros, and according to the investigation, the man would have already made it in July, and last October.
"
I did not know what was in it
", he would have assured at the bar of the court, of which the president would have answered: "
If you are paid 3000 euros for this trip, it is that what you transport is worth much more
”.
For the couple's lawyer, Me Frédéric Birrien, the young man is "
victim / guilty."
Victim of his addiction, guilty of his addiction
”.
"
Monsieur is a transporter, he is an international delivery man
", rather qualified the prosecutor of the Republic of Rennes, Philippe Astruc.
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