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French makes biggest heroin bust in three decades
Feb 10. 2006 www.Reuters.com
PARIS: France toay said it had seized heroin last week
with a street value of 12.2 million dollars
euros 14.6 million dollars, its biggest heroin bust in more
than three decades.
French
customs officials found just over 305 kg of heroin hidden in 13 sports bags on a
truck
on its way to Britain from Turkey
when they searched the vehicle
at Dunkerque on February. 3.
''This latest haul on its own represents more than three-quarters of the total
quantity of heroin normally seized by customs in a year,'' the ministry
said in a statement. It was the biggest amount of the drug seized since 1972, it
added.
The driver of the truck, a 32-year-old Turk, was arrested.