The eye of the customs officers was caught by his Skoda registered in Spain. At the end of last week, near Kanfen on the A31, the police intercepted the car of a Turkish national in transit via France. They search the vehicle and end up getting their hands on more than 3 kg of heroin. As well as 18 “small” grams of hashish corresponding to his own consumption.
Presented in immediate appearance this Monday, February 14 before the Thionville court, the defendant repeated, through the voice of his interpreter, that he came from the Netherlands, where part of his family resides. And that he had to go to Spain to return the rental vehicle. Above all, he planned to set up a clothing import business in Barcelona, a business he says he wants to put to music between his native country, Holland and the Iberian Peninsula.
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Delivery at €3,000
But what was this brown powder doing, hidden in packets in the ventilation grilles of the rented vehicle? A little more talkative than in police custody, the forty-year-old indicates that his sponsors – whose names he will not mention – offered him delivery to Spain, in exchange for €3,000. But he claims it was only to convey herbal cannabis. Well known to Belgian justice for acts of narcotics (manufacturing, laundering, theft), the father of the family assures the bar that he imagined risking “just a fine”, and clearly not imprisonment. He was wrong.
In addition to the customs fine set at €46,650, Ridvan Aytar was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment and continued detention. He is also banned from French territory for a period of five years.
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