a “model” customs officer from Roissy indicted and remanded in custody

A “model” customs officer from Roissy, hailed by his hierarchy and who paraded on the Champs-Elysées last year, is indicted with eleven other people in a case of cocaine trafficking from Latin America, a learned franceinfo Monday, March 13 from a judicial source. The 35-year-old customs officer is remanded in custody with ten other people. A last person is placed under judicial control.

After being presented to an investigating judge on Sunday, these 12 people were indicted for imports of narcotics in an organized gang, drug trafficking, laundering of the import of narcotics in an organized gang and drug trafficking and criminal association . The arrests took place last Wednesday in Roissy and in the Paris region.

Cocaine sent to the Paris region

According to investigators, the customs officer is suspected of having let suitcases filled with cocaine through each week. At the airport, accomplices recovered one or two 60-kilogram suitcases worth 4 million euros from Mexico or Colombia, depending on resale prices. Investigators estimate that this customs officer received between 45,000 and 50,000 euros per suitcase of cocaine leaving Roissy airport.

The traffickers arrested at the same time as B., the customs officer, are “high-flying criminals”, in the words of a good connoisseur of the file that franceinfo was able to join. The cocaine that they managed to smuggle through Roissy was then transported throughout the Paris region, to supply the drug market in Île-de-France.

The Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, reacted last Friday. He asked “the most total firmness” after the arrest of these people. “I refuse that an individual drift discredits all the agents who, every day, fight tirelessly against all traffic”said Gabriel Attal, in charge of customs, in his press release.