The customs services intercepted Monday a heavy truck which had just loaded a container at the port of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime).
Inside, customs officials discovered a hundred kilos of cocaine, according to information from
Paris-Normandie
.
In addition, three individuals were hidden in the trailer.
They were taken into custody with the driver of the truck and his passenger.
Five people arrested
The five suspects were still auditioned on Tuesday, specifies the regional daily.
Among them, two are said to be from Le Havre.
The case was placed under the responsibility of the specialized interregional jurisdiction (Jirs) of Lille, which manages the major drug trafficking.
The investigation was entrusted to the Le Havre judicial police.
At the beginning of December, 1.5 tonnes of cocaine had already been seized in the port of the Norman city.
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