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Bent French customs officers ‘caught with drug money’

Seven customs officers have been arrested for allegedly taking money from drug traffickers at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. They have been indicted for theft, handling stolen goods and corruption. 

Published: 25 June 2012 11:07 CEST

It was during an investigation into a drug trafficking network that the police spotted a customs officer taking a bag full of cash belonging to a suspected drug trafficker. 

A first the police officers belonging to the anti-drug force Ocrtis suspected the customs employee of stealing bags. 

But an investigation into his background led officers to suspect he was involved in a corruption ring, Le Monde reports.

Police began monitoring customs officers working in the same area. According to the agency, they were caught taking bags of money from alleged cocaine traffickers who used commercial flights to transfer drug money. 

According to Le Figaro, seven customs officers have admitted to taking money from luggage transiting at the Charles de Gaulle airport. 

Over €5.5 million was discovered in bank accounts in the tax haven Andorra and €157,000 were also found at the suspects’ homes, the French prosecution reported

Currently, the customs officers are suspected of corruption, but police sources quoted by le Monde said the investigation could go further. 

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Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

An assailant on Thursday wounded two girls aged 6 and 11 in a knife attack close to their school in the east of France and was later arrested, officials said.

Published: 18 April 2024 16:33 CEST
Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

The 11-year-old was stabbed outside the school in the town of Souffelweyersheim, on the outskirts of Strasbourg, while the six-year-old was attacked by the same man nearby.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both girls are being treated in a paediatric hospital. Parents were later in the afternoon allowed to pick up their children, who had been confined to the school in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

The attacker, born in 1995, was arrested in the area where he attacked the second girl, the police said. He no longer had the knife in his hand and did not resist arrest, it added.

The attack came as Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures aimed at cracking down on violence committed by schoolchildren against their peers. There was no indication so far that the attacker had a link with the school.

“I’m really scared. We’ve been reassured that the children are safe inside, but we don’t know when we’ll be able to get them back,” Sarah, a mother of an eight-year-old pupil, told AFP before the green light was given to collect the children.

“A friend called me. She saw the commotion in front of the school as she passed by. Her reflex was to call me so that I could pick up my son.”

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