While cannabis seizures are common, cocaine seizures are rarer and rarely exceed a few kilos. The 74 kg discovered in a truck constitutes an enormous haul.
The defendant facing his judges has the rounded belly of the men who have established their situation, the Albanian national has been judiciously named Alban. Unless it is a coincidence. Because, in this case, it is really very often a question of coincidence.
It is half past twelve on June 18 when customs officers check an Italian semi-trailer at the Boulou toll booth. Noticing an incongruity in the ceiling, they unload the truck and discover the presence of a cache. It contains no less than 74 kg of cocaine.
He allegedly met “by chance” a guy in a Spanish shopping centre, who offered him €5,000 to transport drugs. The coke was loaded somewhere between Girona and Barcelona. Where exactly? The defendant doesn’t remember very well…
“And the cache was already installed?” wonders the resident.
Again and again chance…
“Who owns the truck anyway?”
“I do not remember”.
Overwhelmed by so much candor, the prosecutor bluntly requests a 6-year prison sentence.
M’s worke Djorfe looks quite complicated… “He knew he was transporting drugs, but he didn’t know how much or what product. He has no criminal record. Six years is far too long! With a severe suspended sentence, he will not burden our overcrowded prisons and will be able to put in place a protocol for reimbursing the fine.”
The one handed down reaches €2,960,000 and is accompanied by 4 years of imprisonment.
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