The seizure represents a market value of more than 4 million euros.
During a banal road safety operation, carried out on March 23 at the junction of the A7 and A8 motorways near Marseille, the gendarmes of the Salon-de-Provence motorway platoon checked a motorist on the phone while driving.
Approaching the vehicle, the driver has a “suspicious attitude” suggesting that he is hiding something, continues the gendarmerie in a press release.
A smell of cannabis also emanates from the interior of the van.
It does not take more for the military to continue the investigations and come across 530 kg of cannabis resin packaged in 100-gram packets, and stored in suitcases, boxes and sports bags.
At the end of his police custody, the man was indicted and remanded in custody at the Luynes remand center, in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône).
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