An “ exceptional
” seizure
, we are proud of on the side of the authorities.
An astronomical quantity of synthetic drugs was seized by the Millau customs brigade last week,
Le Figaro
learned from a police source this Friday, January 28.
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It was during a simple check on departmental road 911, near Millau on January 19, that this discovery, which "
has no equivalent in terms of volume in recent years in France, or even in Europe
”, was carried out.
The customs officers spot a van from Spain, which seems suspicious to them.
During their investigations, they found inside the vehicle several boxes and bags, containing no less than 613 kilograms of white powder.
Synthetic Cathinone
The various tests that the squad carries out on the spot confirm their suspicions: the white powder contains phencyclidine, ketamine and ecstasy, dangerous psychotropic hallucinogens or anesthetics. The analyzes carried out
a posteriori
by the Marseille laboratory, requested urgently, finally revealed that the product seized by Millau customs is synthetic cathinone. The van was to transport her to the Netherlands, a country where the consumption of psychotropic drugs is high.
Synthetic drugs are "
particularly profitable for criminal networks, which could have put hundreds of millions of doses on the market
", indicates the customs.
On the instruction of the Rodez prosecutor's office, the driver of the van was handed over to the Territorial Directorate of the Judicial Police of Montpellier, we learned.
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