An ex-robber turned artist arrested on a sailboat loaded with cocaine

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The ex-French robber Jean-Claude Pautot, who became a painter and actor, was arrested at the end of December off the Azores on a sailboat carrying 740 kg of cocaine.

"During his arrest, Jean-Claude Pautot was on a sailboat loaded with 740 kilos of cocaine" sailing "in international waters" at "150 miles" nautical from the Portuguese archipelago, she said.

This source confirmed information from the Sunday newspaper.

A former figure of organized crime, the sexagenarian was placed under judicial supervision in the Spanish province of Cadiz.

After decades of robberies, prison and on the run, Jean-Claude Pautot had settled down, becoming an artist-painter and co-writing the comic book

, a fiction directly inspired by his life.

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Also an actor, he climbed the steps at the last Cannes Film Festival for the film

by Louis Garrel in which he played a supporting role.

According to the Spanish source, nine other people - French, Spaniards and Moroccans - have been arrested in connection with this investigation, which is still ongoing.

According to the

, the sailboat had left Martinique.

Arrests have also taken place in France, where an additional 390 kg of cocaine were seized as part of this operation carried out jointly by the French and Spanish authorities.

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