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French police toast record cannabis haul

French police said Tuesday they had seized more than 3,000 cannabis plants from two illegal planting operations at a warehouse and a former bakery in the Champagne region, in a record haul.

French police toast record cannabis haul
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The raids Monday on the warehouse in Essoyes and the ex-bakery in Virey-sous-Bar — two villages a few kilometres apart in north-central France — followed the arrests of three men in the Paris region, local police said.

The men were arrested after a three-month operation, police said.

The previous record seizure in France was of 700 plants discovered in February 2011 at a warehouse in La Courneuve outside Paris.

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Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen's airport this summer.

Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

In late July, Pontus Wiklund, a handball coach who was accompanying his team to an international competition, said when asked by an airport agent that
a bag of balls he was checking in contained a bomb.

“We think you must have realised that it is more than likely that if you say the word ‘bomb’ in response to what you have in your bag, it will be perceived as a threat,” the judge told Wiklund, according to broadcaster TV2, which was present at the hearing.

The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated, and the coach arrested. He later apologised on his club’s website.

“I completely lost my judgement for a short time and made a joke about something you really shouldn’t joke about, especially in that place,” he said in a statement.

According to the public prosecutor, the fact that Wiklund was joking, as his lawyer noted, did not constitute a mitigating circumstance.

“This is not something we regard with humour in the Danish legal system,” prosecutor Christian Brynning Petersen told the court.

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