2024-08-02 09:00:09
The theater of operations does not have the beauty of the Olympic sites: there are seventeen shops scattered in the east of Paris that more than 145,000 acne items intended for the Games and sports activities. These slightly rough “Phryges” shiny toys, these t-shirts with rings set on top, these shoes aping of big brands join the largest inventory of “obvious forgeries”always coming from China, made by customs, during an international hunt that started seven months before.
« The French market is clearly targeted, and the Olympic Games – just like the Euro football tournament – is a business opportunity for criminal groups. », Refers to Corinne Cléostrate, deputy director of anti-fraud at the General Commission of Customs. “The Olympics can be a hotbed for organized crime,” underlines Simon Decressac, regional customs director of Roissy-Voyageurs.
Beyond the goods linked to the event, the joyous satisfaction of the airport terminals, with the surplus of passengers and equipment to move as quickly as possible, is seen as an opportunity to cross the goods illegally to. “We are making seizures of tobacco, drugs, drugs, but it is too early to talk about the Olympic role,” believed Madame Cleostratus. “As for doping products, you definitely the findings of recent days consider the orders from individuals made on the Internet, for bodybuilding in particular, but nothing linked to competitions. »
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The intelligence of the customs has noticed another strategy: the presence, on commercial flights taken by some Olympic representatives, of “mules” taking advantage of the opportunity to carry drugs in their suitcases. Such infiltration will focus on the usual countries of origin of cocaine – in South America and West Africa, which has become a “recycling zone” process. On Sunday July 28, it was when he got off the plane from Dakar, but outside the Olympic process, that a young Brazilian woman was arrested. In one of his boxes was packed 8 kg of cocaine – more than 500,000 euros on auction.
For cocaine as for other stimulants, which health authorities fear a higher than usual consumption during festivals, the supplies are guaranteed in advance, according to expert researchers. On July 14, 107 kg of cocaine were found in Roissy in containers coming from Fort-de-France, in Martinique: 52 kg, first, in small bags filled with a passenger’s luggage, then 55 kg, a few minutes later, in another. suitcases abandoned on the conveyor belt.
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