Saturday, August 2, 2014

France drugs: Policeman seized in huge cocaine chase



Hugh Schofield reported prior on the 50kg of cocaine which made a go at absent from a protected police home office in Paris

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A French drugs squad officer has been captured in the southern city of Perpignan on suspicion of taking more than 50kg (110lb) of cocaine from Paris police central command.

The anonymous officer, 34, was gotten while on vacation in the city close to the Spanish outskirt, authorities say.

The robbery of the medications, which have a road estimation of in the range of 3m euros (£2.4m; $4m), was a significant humiliation.

A squad car outside a police headquarters in Perpignan, southern France, 2 August A squad car outside the a police headquarters in Perpignan

It shows up they were taken from a protected room on 24 July.

CCTV pictures of a man convey two sacks into police base camp that night, and leaving not long after, helped specialists distinguish the suspect, police say.

The medications were initially seized in an assault on 4 July against a suspected Senegalese group working in northern Paris, Le Parisien daily paper reports.

There was no prompt evidence on Saturday that the missing cocaine had been recuperated.

Police base camp, deified in Georges Simenon's Maigret investigator books and in French wrongdoing movies, is spotted at 36 Quai des Orfevres, in the heart of the French capital, neglecting the River Seine and near Notre Dame church building.

The building additionally pulled in unwelcome exposure in April, when two tip top hostile to pack officers were accused of assaulting a Canadian vacationer there. An examination is still under way

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