Fruit, vegetables for the Rungis market, drugs for drug trafficking. A Spanish truck coming from Almeria, in Andalusia, was intercepted by the internal customs surveillance brigade of Les Ulis, in Essonne, on June 15, during a traffic control. And the anti-narcotic dog did not let himself be deceived by the smell of fruits and vegetables because he marked the stop.
Inside the truck, "in the middle of the pallets of melons and watermelons, the service discovered two pallets loaded with 17 Moroccan suitcases, or 552 kg of cannabis resin. The value of this take is estimated at 2.8 million euros on the illicit market for the retail resale of narcotics, ”reports the Ministry of Public Action and Accounts in a press release.
The Evry public prosecutor's office was informed and the driver of the heavy goods vehicle, of Spanish nationality, "was handed over to the research section of Paris after the customs detention". "The rest of the shipment, 19 tonnes of goods, was made available to a local charity," said customs. In 2019, French customs services seized 52.3 tonnes of cannabis.
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