The twelve people suspected of extensive cocaine trafficking between Guyana and France and arrested on Monday in the North, in Paris and in the Paris region, were presented on Friday to a judge in Créteil with a view to an indictment for "
drug trafficking and criminal conspiracy
,” we learned from a source familiar with the matter.
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It is the 2nd Regional Directorate of the Judicial Police (DPJ) of Paris which carried out this investigation after information from Guyana concerning the transport of cocaine via smugglers between Cayenne and Orly airport.
The smugglers (mules) transported the cocaine in suitcases and not as is very often the case by ingesting balls of this drug.
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Investigators made 12 arrests on Monday.
Five people were arrested in a luxury hotel in the capital where 141 kg of cocaine were seized in their rooms.
Three people were arrested in Seine-Saint-Denis, where the goods were repackaged, and four in the North.
The criminals are between 30 and 41 years old, according to a source familiar with the matter.