In early September, the 30-year-old had asked for a postponement for his defense. Presented on Monday 3 October before the judicial court of Thionville, this Spanish citizen, a truck driver by profession, had to answer for the transport, possession, purchase, import and attempted supply and transfer of drugs. And not just any amount. 453 kg of herbal cannabis was found by customs officers last month, during a check on the A31, south of Thionville, in Illange.
When asked about the presence of drugs in the trailer, the father of two children immediately assured that he did not know the contents of the goods.
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Five years of inadmissibility
Curiosity: he had already made, with this same convoy, a round trip to Denmark, the destination of the delivery, some time before, but the pharmaceutical company that was to receive the packages – bags of beads – had refused them. According to the defendant, the trailer did not belong to him, it had been attached to his tractor by a transporter who had commissioned it and paid 3,000 euros. A man known to have been involved in a drug trafficking case.
Released for the crimes of purchase, offer and transfer, he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment, with continued detention. He especially he will have to pay a customs penalty equal to 2,176 million euros, and will no longer have to set foot on French soil for a period of five years. The seals were seized.
