He is young, 23 years old, and was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison with a committal warrant by the Poitiers criminal court, Friday June 28, 2024. This young person is a “Guyanese mule” who is a repeat offender. He was arrested at Poitiers station on June 5, 2024 by customs, while he was getting off the TGV from Paris. The gabelous’ nose had been confirmed by the scanner: in his stomach, 44 eggs of cocaine for a total weight of 494 g.
He was to receive €4,000 for this trip
He only recognized this transport from Guyana, the ticket for which had been paid in cash. “And the six round trips over the last twelve months, between Guyana and mainland France?” the president of the court asked.
No, it was only once, according to the defendant who accepted this high-risk transport to collect €4,000 and repay, according to him, a debt to the SNCF of €3,000. Complicated childhood, ninth of a family of eleven children, a father who was a policeman in Guyana, a mother in Poitiers. Already convicted for this cocaine transport, he was released from prison in 2022.
“A food smuggler who will pay for the barons of the middle”
“He is one of those exploited by drugs, he is a food courier who will pay for the barons in the middle, those who have yachts and planes, he will be condemned for them”sighed his lawyer, M.e Djidjoho Zoumenou.
Not enough to soften the public prosecutor of Poitiers. He had requested a 4-year prison sentence. Nor the customs representative whose customs fine of €32,604 was granted.
