Lyon customs officers made a very large seizure of nearly a ton of ecstasy on Thursday, October 31, at a toll booth on the A7 motorway, about fifty kilometers south of Lyon, we learned from reliable sources on Monday. , confirming information from Dauphiné Libéré. A van, loaded with 963 kg of ecstasy pills, was intercepted at the exit of the Reventin-Vaugris tollbooth (Isère), the Paris prosecutors and the National Jurisdiction for the Fight against Organized Crime (Junalco) confirmed to AFP.
Between 15 and 20 million euros
The value of this cargo is estimated “between 15 and 20 million euros”specified the public prosecutor of Vienna, Olivier Rabot, who was first seized of the case before being relieved of it on Sunday. The driver of the van is of Spanish nationality, he added.
A judicial investigation was opened on Monday, in particular of the charge of importing and exporting narcotics in an organized gang, punishable by 30 years of criminal imprisonment and a fine of 7,500,000 euros. The arrested driver was presented this Monday to an investigating judge according to the Paris prosecutor's office, before being indicted for importing and exporting drugs in an organized gang and placed in pre-trial detention.
One of the largest ecstasy seizures ever made in France
This seizure of 963 kg represents approximately two million doses of ecstasy, almost double the total quantity seized by French customs nationally for the year 2023. On May 1, more than a million ecstasy tablets, or 542 kg, were seized by the gendarmes in two vehicles arriving from the North of France, and passing through Drôme, Valence and Saint-Rambert-d'Albon.
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