Arrested a week ago, the assistant police officers are suspected of having taken advantage of their status to avoid security checks at Cayenne airport.
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Thirteen people, including eleven assistant police officers, suspected, as franceinfo revealed last Friday, of having smuggled cocaine by plane from Guyana to mainland France, were indicted and remanded in custody, learned Friday July 7 franceinfo, from a judicial source. Aged 21 to 35, they were arrested between June 27 and 29 in Cayenne and, for one of them, in Aubervilliers.
The individual arrested in Aubervilliers was indicted and remanded in custody last Saturday. The twelve other suspects arrested in Guyana were in turn indicted and remanded in custody between Monday and Friday.
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The police, mainly from the border police (PAF), took advantage of their uniform to avoid security checks. They are particularly suspected of having allowed “mules” to recover drugs that they hid in the false ceiling of the toilets in the international area of Cayenne airport, the judicial source told franceinfo.
10 kg of cocaine seized
During the searches, two bags each containing 2 kilograms of cocaine and a cubitainer containing 1.8 kilograms of cocaine in liquid form were seized in the false ceiling of the airport. In total, 10 kilograms of cocaine and 60,000 euros in cash were seized, half of which in Aubervilliers.
Two judicial inquiries are opened by the Créteil prosecutor’s office in this case, in particular for “drug trafficking”, “laundering” or even “passive corruption”. They had been opened after two arrests of “mules” transporting cocaine from Guyana, at Orly airport last spring.