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20 kilos of cocaine in condoms swallowed by 22 passengers

Paris, France - Maxi-drugs bust on a Caracas-Amsterdam flight

22 Venezuelan embarked on the same airplane from Caracas to Amsterdam were arrested at Paris-Roissy airport because they were carrying about total 20 kilos of cocaine, housed inside condoms previously swallowed. The maxi-drugs bust, the biggest ever made in French territory, is stunning because such number of drug traffickers travelling on the same mean at the same time was never seen before. The signal...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 138156
Rome, Italy, 03/27/2006 12:34
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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