More than 300 kilos of cannabis, 333 precisely, were seized on Monday July 11 at the Monnaie tollbooth, on the A10, near Tours.
This high seizure, revealed by our colleagues from the New Republic and confirmed this Friday by the public prosecutor Grégoire Dulin, was carried out by the customs officers of Tours in the trailer of a heavy goods vehicle. Cannabis, in small packets, was hidden in bundles of wool.
The two Spanish truck drivers indicted
The public prosecutor of Tours requested this Friday the provisional detention of the two people who chartered the convoy, two truck drivers of Spanish nationality, aged 45 and 48. They are put on trial. During their police custody, they declared having learned of the nature of their load on Saturday July 9, at the time of their departure.
Where were they going with that load of drugs, valued at more than a million euros? Coming from the Iberian Peninsula, they went up towards the Paris region by the motorway but their destination is not yet known. A judicial investigation for drug trafficking is opened to try to trace the chain.