Hostess and model unemployed because of the health crisis, a Colombian had found another way to make money.
This 28-year-old woman was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison, including one year suspended after her arrest near Nice with 1.9 kg of cocaine, in a bus that took her from Spain to Italy.
Climbing to Madrid with seven packages hidden around the waist, the young woman with dual Colombian and Spanish nationality will have to pay a fine of 76,080 euros, said judge Alain Chemama, who also pronounced ten years of ban on French territory.
"I only wanted to help my mother"
Without a criminal record, a bac +1 graduate, this brunette with long hair and manicured hands was arrested on March 14 during a routine check at the La Turbie tollgate (Alpes-Maritimes). After an unsuccessful inspection of the holds and the cabin, customs officers checked the passengers going to Italy, including the young woman. The bus, which left Lisbon, was to go to Hungary. The young Colombian had to stop in Milan to deliver the goods for 2,000 euros.
“It's a bad patch in my life.
My agency canceled the contracts because of the Covid and I couldn't find a job.
I only wanted to help my mother, ”the young woman justified at the hearing, pleading to get out of prison before she turned 30 so as not to compromise her efforts to become a flight attendant.
"She would never have participated in that without the crisis", also supported her lawyer Me Sophie Jonquet.
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