The drugs were hidden in Moroccan suitcases.

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Customs

  • Sète customs officials decided to check a truck driver they had just spotted on the highway.

  • In the trailer, they discovered Moroccan suitcases containing 880.4 kg of cannabis resin.

  • The resale value of this seizure is estimated at 8.3 million euros.

Customs officers from the Sète brigade seized, on March 23, just over 880 kg of cannabis in a heavy vehicle registered in Romania.

The vehicle was returning from Spain.

After targeting the road assembly, the customs officers forced it to stop at the Gigean area.

At the bottom of the trailer, they then discovered ten large plywood boxes.

Inside, 27 Moroccan suitcases contained 880.4 kg of cannabis resin, worth an estimated 8.3 million euros on resale.

88 tonnes of drugs seized in France in 2020

The driver was handed over to the Montpellier judicial police services on the instruction of the Montpellier public prosecutor's office.

In 2020, French customs seized more than 88 tonnes of narcotics, including 60.32 tonnes of cannabis.

A figure up 15% compared to 2019. Grass represented nearly two-thirds of seizures (37 tonnes, up 91% compared to 2019).

“This increase confirms a trend observed for several years.

Grass allows criminal organizations a higher profitability than resin, ”explains customs.

Bought 1,000 euros, resold three times its price

Purchased 1,000 euros per kg at wholesale price in Spain, it is sold for nearly 3,000 euros on the French market.

In 2017, weed accounted for only 26% of cannabis seizures.

“Cannabis (resin and herb) remains the most seized drug on the terrestrial vector, continues customs.

The level of threat remains particularly high taking into account two factors, the constantly increasing level of cannabis production and the increasing increase in the level of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) ”.

Justice

Béziers: A man sentenced for transporting nearly 30 kg of cannabis on the highway

Miscellaneous

Perpignan: 204 kg of drugs hidden in a Slovenian truck in the middle of the hubcaps

  • Languedoc-Roussillon

  • Sète

  • Drug

  • Drug traffic

  • Miscellaneous

  • Capture

  • Montpellier

  • Customs