It is a constantly developing phenomenon: grocery stores open at night which deliver alcohol but also products whose misuse can make them dangerous. This is the case of nitrous oxide, nicknamed laughing gas. These gas cylinders which are usually used to make whipped cream, legally sold in stores or found in hospitals because they are used for anesthetic purposes, but obviously under medical supervision. The control of an uber eat delivery man on Friday evening in Toulon revealed a well-established system. Two men were taken into custody. The delivery man and the grocer who supplied it.
When the police checked this Uber Eat delivery man on Friday evening in Toulon, he indicated that he had to make a delivery on Signes at the request of a Toulon grocer. In the box of the two wheels, no food but canisters of nitrous oxide in large quantities and balloons which allow the aspiration of gas through the mouth. A grocer whose investigators will search the store. And they don’t leave empty-handed: a hundred carboys, as many balloons, contraband tobacco and cigarettes.
“He does not understand why he could not sell protoxide, since in supermarkets it is allowed“indicates a person close to the file. But the problem is not to sell them when it comes to making a whipped cream. Or”he knows that these carboys are going to be used for the high since he himself consumes“, continues the same source. Difficult to evoke a desire for cake in the middle of the night especially when the delivery concerns dozens of these famous capsules.
Profitable trade
Moreover, the grocer, a chemical engineer by training, has diversified, even offering balloons already filled with gas at five euros per unit. That’s five times the price of a single small cylinder. And therefore rather very very profitable. So much so that barely out of custody, the grocer resumed his retail business. An individual was indeed checked a few hours later. He was going to a party in Cuers. In his trunk, ten bottles of alcohol and two large bottles of nitrous oxide. Again, all bought in the same grocery store.
The Uber Eat delivery man, who has visibly freed himself from the distance provided by his contract of a few kilometers, and the grocer have been released while the investigation continues. “In any case, it’s a real problem because these grocery stores open part of the night, certainly do not welcome customers, but they deliver products, some of which are problematic.“notes a connoisseur.
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