Moroccan Drug Heist with EUR 27 Million of Cannabis Hijacked in France
- A Moroccan-plated truck carrying nine tons of cannabis resin was hijacked on April 22 at a gas station in Vitrolles, near Lyon.
- The hijacking occurred because armed men intercepted the driver and stole the vehicle containing sealed crates of cannabis resin.
- Anonymous calls with GPS data led gendarmes to seize the truck and its cargo near Lyon, while authorities arrested at least two suspects.
- Officials estimate the cannabis cargo’s value at EUR 27 million and describe the bust as one of France's largest in recent years.
- The case was transferred to the National Jurisdiction for the Fight Against Organized Crime and remains under investigation by anti-narcotics authorities.
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Their truck full of drugs gets robbed, they warn the gendarmes and they discover that it carries 9 tons of cannabis
The driver of a truck carrying a shipment of drugs was robbed of his cargo in Vitrolles in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the nine tons of cannabis were found 300 kilometres further.
·Strasbourg, France
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