French trafficker arrested in Bangkok
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A French drug trafficker who was part of a notorious international network that authorities say copied tactics from Hollywood鈥檚 鈥淔ast and Furious鈥 films was arrested in Bangkok, officials said yesterday.
Andre Cabau, 39, was arrested for entering Thailand with a fake French passport and will be deported to continue serving a sentence in France on drug trafficking charges, Thai and French police said at a news conference.
鈥淗e鈥檚 a big fish,鈥 said Catherine Occhini, a French police attache at the French Embassy in Bangkok. 鈥淗e was a big trafficker and specialized in moving drugs around Europe.鈥
Cabau, who was arrested in 2005 in the French city of Marseille, was convicted in 2007 and sentenced to seven years in prison, but was released early on parole that required him to remain in France, Occhini said.
He fled to Thailand and was living there under a fake name, Andre Donatho, with a Thai wife and young child on the resort island of Koh Samui, said police Major General Apichart Suribunya. He also had a luxury apartment in central Bangkok, where he was arrested on November 20.
French authorities worked with Interpol to track him and then alerted Thai police, Occhini said.
Cabau鈥檚 network smuggled cocaine, Ecstasy and other drugs from Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg into France, according to a statement from Thai police.
鈥淭heir actions copied the famous movies 鈥淔ast and Furious,鈥 where they used high-speed cars to transport the drugs,鈥 said Thai police General Wut Liptapanlop.
To emphasize the parallel, police showed a video clip of an apparently unrelated high-speed car chase. Cabau sat handcuffed at the news conference and told reporters, 鈥淵es, I admit that I used high-speed cars.鈥
Occhini said the network was highly organized and worked at night, using fleets of powerful cars to speed the contraband across Europe鈥檚 open borders. Often, a scouting car would do a fast test drive past a police customs control point and then alert other drivers carrying drugs that the coast was clear, she said.
鈥淭his case is important to us,鈥 Occhini said.
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