Missing drugs embarrass French police
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FRENCH authorities were grilling elite police officers yesterday after more than 50 kilograms of seized cocaine worth up to 3 million euros (US$4 million) went missing from the Paris police headquarters.
The cocaine, seized in raids in July, was found to have gone missing from a secure room on Thursday in the latest major embarrassment for the Paris police. Sniffer dogs were deployed and many people are being questioned by a team from the national police’s internal affairs division.
“If the investigation shows that the law has been broken ... very firm measures will be immediately taken,” police said.
The cocaine was seized in raids that saw the arrest of several people, mainly Senegalese nationals. It followed an investigation into a Senegalese network suspected of supplying drugs in Paris’s gritty northern areas.
The cocaine was stored in a secure room at the police headquarters but there was no close circuit television in the area.
A source close to the investigation said only three people had keys to the room.
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