It is a product used to put bison to sleep, “incapacitate” rhinos and tranquilize elephants.
A synthetic opioid, cousin of the devastating fentanyl, classified as a narcotic and whose veterinary use has gradually been diverted.
Recently appearing on the market as new synthetic drugs, carfentanil, invented in the 1970s, is 100 times more powerful than fentanyl and 10,000 times more powerful than morphine.
It can be injected, smoked or snuffed.
This Tuesday, March 26, three men - a 25-year-old sponsor and two conveyors aged 20 and 28 - suspected of having organized "go fast" trips between the Netherlands and France to import narcotics containing carfentanil, are judged in immediate appearance at the Bobigny court (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Identified for the first time in France in 2017
In France, the implementation of this drug, which is part of the fentanyloid family,
“is very marginal
,” says Benjamin Rolland, head of the University Addictology Service of Lyon (Sual)
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