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Come on, see you later!”
Commander David* and his colleagues are smiling.
The manager of the Drive Shop grocery store a little less so.
For the second time in the afternoon, police officers from the Nîmes (Gard) police station intervened in his shop on rue Vincent-Faïta to seize contraband tobacco, sold secretly at 7.50 euros per packet. ;
compared to 4 to 5 euros more in the neighboring newsagent.
In the space of two hours, the police seized from his home, and in an adjoining room to which he held the key, some 850 packets of tobacco... to which must be added 450 others found, thanks to a few blows with a sledgehammer, behind a partition. from another store located on the same street but not answerable to the same manager.
“It’s a good catch,”
smile the bloodhounds.
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