Paris police are investigating the disappearance of 51kg of cocaine from a supposedly locked and sealed room in their own headquarters on the banks of the Seine.
The cocaine “bricks” with a street value of around €2.5m (£2m) were seized a month ago after officers smashed a drug trafficking network in the capital.
They were supposed to be under lock and key at the force’s legendary headquarters at 36 Quai des Orfèvres, for ever associated with the fictional French detective Maigret.
Officials say the cocaine, placed in numbered evidence bags, was definitely still in the secured store room on 23 July when it was last checked, but was definitely missing on Thursday.
The bloke with the keys to the secured store room is believed to be on holiday near a Swiss Bank….
Puts me so in mind of a story from Malaga, a year or so back.
Police seize several tons of drugs in a raid on a unit on an industrial estate. Picture in paper of several tons of drugs. Police store seized drugs in unit on industrial estate. Picture in paper of empty unit.
Much embarrassment.
You can always tell the police from the criminals. They’re the ones wearing the uniforms.
You can tell the criminals from the innocent. The criminals are wearing the suits.
@BiJ
No. That’s the lawyers.
Read “The murder in the Rue Morgue”. The solution is there.
bnis,
That’s what BiJ said?
They must send for Frances greatest detective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXn2QVipK2o
That would require some nerve though, waltzing out of a police station with 51 kg of cocaine. So fair play to whoever did it.
Remainds me of a story that was news in Hong Kong when I visited recently:
a mainland Chinese businessman bought 998 kg of gold bullion in a consignment from Ghana (sic). But when he came to sell it on, and his customer asked to check the goods, well bugger me it was a pile of base metal !