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Dodgy cop lockers full of drugs and cash

Drugs and money have been found in the lockers of 12 police officers arrested on suspicion of corruption in the southern French city of Marseille, a judicial source said on Thursday.

Published: 4 October 2012 11:16 CEST
Dodgy cop lockers full of drugs and cash
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The officers from a special anti-crime squad were arrested on Tuesday and detained as part of an investigation into organised theft, extortion, violence and drugs.

They are suspected of having stolen drugs and cash from dealers and taking cigarettes from illicit sellers.

The source said 500 grams (18 ounces) of hashish and money had been found. Radio station RTL Thursday reported that the stash included jewellery.

The arrests were the latest in a series of incidents bringing French law enforcement under scrutiny.

In September, Michel Neyret — the deputy police chief of Lyon who was hailed for cutting drug crime and jewellery heists — was arrested after being accused of accepting gifts and favours from members of the city's underworld.

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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.

Published: 5 October 2023 17:11 CEST
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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