Flight cocaine “36″: two policemen Stups’ brought – Le Nouvel Observateur

Flight cocaine "36″: two policemen Stups' brought – Le Nouvel Observateur

Paris (AFP) – The police sergeant of 33 years suspected of stealing 52 kg of cocaine at 36 quai Goldsmiths, was indicted Wednesday by a judge

It. continued misappropriation or embezzlement by a person holding public authority, transport, possession, offering, sale of drugs and laundering drug trafficking gang.

The prosecution requested his detention and a special magistrate must decide this point in the evening.

arrested Monday, one of his colleagues, a peacekeeper thirty years, however escaped the indictment, leaving the office of the judge under the status of assisted witness.

Arrested Saturday in Perpignan when he was shopping with family, Brigadier, “well noted” in post Stups ‘for several years, denied the allegations during his four days in police custody. He also refused to submit to a test for drug use.

Drugs with an estimated street value of € 2 million for resale, according to investigators, was not been found. Stored since July 4, 2014 in room sealed Brigade drug, its disappearance was found July 31 in the morning.

The sum of 16,020 euros was entered in the bag carried by the officer at the time of his arrest, as well as 8,790 euros at his Paris home, according to the Paris prosecutor.

Originally from Perpignan, where he was arrested while he was on vacation, the brigadier said he earned the money by playing games online. For the rest, it is you

-. Procedure surprising –

Understood as witness the lifestyle of the couple and the seized, his wife said he did not be aware of illegal activities of her husband, according to a police source.

Brigadier would have gone into the room sealed “flimsy pretexts” before the robbery on the night of 24 to 25 July. That night, he had been seen out of “36″ with a policewoman on duty, with large bags.

A procedure that intrigues the police, as the brigadier was perfectly placed to know that it would be easy to trace who would seize drugs under seal.

But investigators “police the police” are convinced that the thief is the person who was seen out of “36″ and it is the brigadier Perpignan, according to a source close to the investigation.

The question is how the suspect, who acted alone at the time of the flight, got key type Fichet, more difficult to reproduce key, which allows you to open the security door of the room sealed.

Only two people have this key, the Chief of Staff and the head of the Narcotics Brigade.

According to sources familiar with the matter, during a search, investigators from the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) found 200 kg of cannabis resin in a nearby box rented by one of the two policemen who had been arrested and they had searched.

There is no evidence that the two cases are linked, or that the box where found the drug was hired by one of the officers.