eleven assistant police officers suspected of having smuggled cocaine to the metropolis taken into custody

Eleven police officers, mainly from the border police (PAF), were taken into custody on Tuesday June 27 in Cayenne (Guyana), suspected of having smuggled cocaine by plane to the mainland from Guyana, a learned Friday, June 30 franceinfo from a source close to the file.

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These assistant police officers were placed in police custody after an extensive investigation by the judicial police, in mainland France and in Guyana. The operation was carried out this week by eighty police officers with supporting gendarmes, as part of two judicial inquiries opened by the Créteil prosecutor’s office on which Orly airport depends. At the origin of this dragnet: two arrests at Orly airport last spring, of “mules” transporting cocaine from Guyana.

All in their twenties

After several months of work, the investigators then go back to these 11 assistant police officers, mainly from the border police, all aged in their twenties and suspected of having smuggled the drugs directly into the boarding area, thus avoiding security checks including a scanner, thanks to their uniform. All that was left for the “mules” was to collect the goods, especially in the toilets before boarding.

The custody of these eleven police officers began on Tuesday. It can last 96 hours in cases of organized drug trafficking.