Curious discoveries on the stalls. Cocaine per kilogram was found in cassava roots in two supermarkets in Ile-de-France, the Leclerc stores in Orly (Val-de-Marne) and Fleury-Mérogis (Essonne), reports The Parisian.
The hidden powder “in the form of tubes”
Several customers alerted the police this week after buying cassava in which the white powder was “in the form of tubes”, said the Créteil prosecutor’s office.
The police then seized several kilos of drugs in cassava sold in these supermarkets in Orly and Fleury-Mérogis, the equivalent of several hundred thousand euros.
An employee uses
These products come from a supplier working at the Rungis market, according to franceinfo. An employee of the Leclerc supermarket was also arrested for having used two cassava to recover the bags and sell them, according to our colleagues. He was taken into custody.
An investigation for drug trafficking was opened and entrusted to the judicial police of Val-de-Marne.
Investigators are now investigating whether other stores or their suppliers are affected.
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