“
Without article 60, there are always more
narcotics
in colleges and high schools, weapons and illegal tobacco in circulation on the territory, and less money in the coffers of the State
”.
The time is panic for the customs officer Romain Simeon, from the Unsa union.
A few months ago, one of the founding texts of the work of the "
gabelous
" - it authorizes the search of goods, means of transport and people - was censored by the Constitutional Council.
"
It's a decision that only serves the crooks
“, laments David-Olivier Caron, his colleague from the CFDT.
The discreet state administration, responsible for nearly 90% of seizures of contraband goods in the territory, fears that its powers will be reduced to nothing.
Censorship obliges, legal cases fall little by little.
Like this Polish driver, relaxed despite transporting 53 kilos of cannabis in Charente-Maritime.
Same thing for this driver of a van which contained material for the smugglers, in Lille.
Or these two Armenians, controlled with 2.3 kilos of cocaine in Reims.
"
If we continue like this, it's the end of French customs, and the highway for traffickers
," adds a trade unionist.
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