5 flight attendants arrested over drug trafficking

The examining magistrate of the court of Algiers has yesterday remanded in custody 5 stewards working in the Algerian airlines company “ Air Algérie” for the their involvement in an international network specialized in drug trafficking.

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• The gang has smuggled huge quantities of cocaine from European and African countries valued at billions of Algerian Dinars over the last three years, it said.

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• Sources close to the case have indicated that the five stewards were among a group of 14 individuals heard by the judge in the wake of the arrest of a steward working on the line Algiers- Bamako with 250gr of cocaine dissimulated in his pant.

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• Following thorough investigations based on the revelations by the arrested culprits, the judge has ordered the arrest of other individuals involved in this traffic including a businessman specialized in the import of medical equipment, the company’s union chief and a famous popular singer.

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• The judge has also charged three police officers with complicity in this case.

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• The same source has revealed startling details about this nefarious affair including the deal the relatives of outstanding personalities that counted among the clients of these traffickers.

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• The members of the gang started the smuggling of cocaine from Spain and other European countries till 2009, but shifted there destination toward Mali because “ cocaine was of best quality and less expensive”.

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• To recall, several networks have turned their trafficking from the Latin America toward the West African countries like Mali, Senegal and Guinea.