On the afternoon of Thursday, October 31, customs agents in Lyon seized almost a ton of ecstasy at a toll on the A7, about thirty kilometers south of Lyon, the Vienna prosecutor’s office informed Agence France Press (AFP). , on Monday in November. 4, confirming information from the regional newspaper The Dauphiné liberated.
The van was intercepted at the Reventin-Vaugris tollbooth with a shipment of 963 kilos of ecstasy, with an estimated value of between 15 and 20 million euros, declared the Vienna prosecutor, Olivier Rabot. “The driver was of Spanish nationality”said Rabot, who announced that he had withdrawn from the case on Sunday in favor of the Paris prosecutor’s office.
“This could be the largest seizure of ecstasy ever made on French territory”according The liberated Dauphiné. Questioned by AFP, customs was not available to report on this seizure.
the 1Ahem In May 2024, gendarmes seized more than one million ecstasy pills, that is, 542 kilos, in two vehicles traveling in Drôme. This seizure alone represented two-thirds of the total ecstasy seized in 2022 in France. This seizure of 963 kilos represents approximately 2 million doses of ecstasy, almost double the total amount seized by French customs nationwide by 2023.
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