Once again, the customs officers made a nice catch, on the morning of June 12th.
They were stationed at the Janville-en-Beauce tollbooth on the A10 motorway when their attention was drawn to a car with two men on board.
They decide to control the vehicle.
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The two occupants are of Ivorian nationality. They live in Madrid (Spain) and they go back to the Paris region.
“A young person who drives a Porsche”
The customs officers discovered in the trunk nearly 17 kg of herbal cannabis, €1,110 in cash and a pistol bullet, caliber 9 mm.
The oldest, 43, recognizes that he had to transport the drugs to the Paris region: “I was to receive 3,000 € for the trip. »
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By contrast, his 38-year-old friend, who owns the car, claims he “didn’t know what was in the trunk”.
During their police custody, the man who admitted conveying the drugs explained that it had been entrusted to him, in Madrid, “by a man named Ricardo, a 20-year-old young man who drives a Porsche Cayenne and who operates a farm of cultivation of cannabis”.
“He told me that the bullet would be for me, if the drugs did not arrive at their destination”
As for the 9 mm bullet found in their vehicle, he explained that it was “a warning”: “He told me that the bullet would be for me, if the drugs did not arrive at their destination. . »
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The two men were presented in immediate appearance before the court of Chartres. They asked for time to prepare their defence.
They will be tried on July 18. They were detained until their trial.
Jacques Joannopoulos
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