A 28-year-old Spanish truck driver was tried in Rodez (Aveyron) on Friday.

Four days earlier, the refrigerated truck he was driving had been intercepted during the night by customs officers at the toll of the Millau viaduct (Aveyron).

A total of 337 kg of cannabis pollen resin had been discovered on board, reports

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The driver was sentenced to three years in prison.

He will also have to pay a fine of 1 million euros.

The market value of the narcotics carried by the Spaniard had been assessed at 3.3 million euros.

During his trial, the defendant claimed to have been accosted on a motorway service area by “three Moroccans”.

They would have offered him 1,000 euros to convey the goods, the nature of which he said he did not know at the start.

The young man also claimed to have initially wanted to recover trees in Orléans (Loiret).

His boss, however, denied any mission of this order, for which a refrigerated truck is not otherwise suitable.

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  • Rodez

  • Occitania

  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

  • Conviction

  • Drug traffic