PARIS (AFP) – End of suspense and investigation flash: a police sergeant was arrested Saturday on suspicion of the unprecedented loss of over 50 kg of cocaine at 36 Quai des Goldsmith, head of the Judicial Police (PJ) Paris .
The suspect, a 34 year old man who was assigned to the narcotics police for several years, was arrested Saturday around noon on his vacation spot to Perpignan, announced in a joint statement the Prefect of Police of Paris and the prosecutor, confirming a police source told AFP.
According to police sources, he was immediately placed in custody and was to be heard by investigators “Font font” (the General Inspectorate of the National Police, IGPN), probably in his local regional office before his transfer to Paris.
The suspect is considered “someone a priori confidence, “a little” deleted “and called” wall pass “, according to police sources. And according to earliest survey items, it would be “owned several properties,” including seven apartments in Perpignan, what intrigues investigators.
Saturday morning, just hours before his arrest he still called his group colleagues to update on current issues, according to a police source.The Minister of the Interior announced the suspension of the suspect Saturday as a precaution. “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 provisions,” said Bernard Cazeneuve.
“This type of drift can not exist in the police, “he hammered, citing” an extremely serious matter “-. Electrochoc to” 36 “-
The searches were conducted Saturday the resort of the suspect, as well as his home in Paris, said the police source.
This is the end of an enigma that would not have disowned the authors of thrillers s’ being largely inspired by the legend of “36″.
The disappearance of 52.6 kilograms of cocaine, estimated at 2 million euros for resale and seized on July 4 by the Narcotics Brigade ‘ it aroused strong emotion. it is unprecedented in its scope, in the annals of police
On Thursday morning, the drug was no longer in the room sealed with ultra secure access requires to sign a register and be accompanied by a staff member with the key.
IGPN investigators had gone “without delay” on the spot and the “36″ has been thoroughly searched .
Investigators are interested in a man who was “seen entering the premises with two bags and standing out shortly thereafter and, on the night of July 24 to 25.” The use of video means disposed in and around the “36″ – but not in the immediate vicinity of the room sealed, according to a police source – allowed “to establish a strong resemblance between this individual and an official of the DEA.
The drug came from a seizure made at the end of a lengthy investigation, in which fourteen suspects were arrested and 48 loaves of cocaine, about 1,100 grams each, seized in a Parisian apartment the statement said.
Most officers interviewed by AFP Friday were part of their “unbelief.” “It would be a thunderclap, a shock if it is proved,” told the police sources. Especially since the “36″ was rocked by a scandal there a few months ago with the indictment of two police officers of the Brigade of Research and Intervention (BRI), suspected of raping a Canadian in their premises.
The hearing of the suspect will learn more about his motivations and especially if he has benefited from accomplices in the police or for the resale of drugs. An “isolated act” without internal complicity was privileged Saturday, according to the same unique sources.Vol cocaine “36″: A policeman Stups decree
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