Cocaine stolen from Wharf Goldsmiths: a brigadier arrested – Liberation

Cocaine stolen from Wharf Goldsmiths: a brigadier arrested – Liberation

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brigadier 34, suspected in the case of the disappearance of more than 50 kg of cocaine at 36 Wharf Goldsmiths, was arrested Saturday morning. He is a police officer in the drug squad, specify in a joint statement the Commissioner of Police and the Public Prosecutor of Paris.

The Minister of the Interior announced suspension of the officer. “I immediately decided, as a precaution, suspend the police sergeant” , said Bernard Cazeneuve Saturday in a brief statement Beauvau place. “If the investigation was to confirm his involvement, and as soon as I become aware of the findings of this investigation, I will take all necessary sanctions and other” , has he said to the press .

The man was taken into custody and was to be heard by the police investigators fonts (the General Inspectorate of the National Police, IGPN). He was arrested Saturday in the Pyrénées-Orientales, near Perpignan, where he was on vacation, specify the prefect and the prosecutor in the statement.

suspect considered “someone trustworthy a priori” , a little “erased” and qualified “wall pass” , according to sources police. And according to earliest survey items, it would “owns several properties” , including seven apartments in Perpignan, what intrigues investigators.

The loss of 52.6 kg of cocaine was found on July 31 in the morning. Investigators IGPN (police fonts) had surrendered immediately on the spot and 36 quai Goldsmiths had been thoroughly searched.

Investigators are interested in a man “seen entering premises with two bags and standing out shortly thereafter and on the night of July 24 to 25 . ” Then the operation of video means allowed “ establish a strong resemblance between this individual and an official police drug squad .”

The drug came from an entry made on July 4. That day, the drug squad of Paris, as part of a commission, interpellait 14 people and seized in a Parisian apartment 48 loaves of cocaine, each with about 1,100 grams, for an estimated total market value 2 million, they still indicate.

Bernard Cazeneuve wished “that the ongoing investigations make any light on these intolerable acts to how they were committed and whether there was complicity “. “This type of drift can not exist in the Republic Police” , has he said, referring “the strongest, an extremely serious matter” which he said he would take “in due time all the consequences” .

The Minister took the opportunity to pay tribute to police officers “whose reputation can not be reached by the unspeakable and despicable behavior of individuals who do not have their place in the ranks of the National Police “.

AFP