Spanish police said they had arrested a 66-year-old Chilean at Barcelona airport after discovering his broken leg was supported by a “cast” made out of cocaine.
The man, who had hobbled off a flight from Santiago, was carrying more of the drug in fake beer cans and two hollowed-out stools.
“The man had a fractured leg and a ‘plaster cast’ that was entirely made from cocaine,” a statement said.
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“He displayed an open fracture of the tibia and the fibula, and has been transferred to a clinic for an operation.
“Investigators are examining the possibility that these injuries were brought about voluntarily ... to facilitate trafficking through security checks,” the statement said.
Spanish police are particularly wary about so-called “hot flights” from South America and had their suspicions about this man, which proved to be on the money.
In total, the Chilean had 4.85kg of cocaine stuffed in the cans, the stools and forming his would-be “cast,” police said.
Spain is one of Europe’s main points of transit for cocaine from South America, mostly from its former colony Colombia, the world’s top producer of the drug.
The country has become the biggest consumer of cocaine in continental Europe, and is one of the world’s top users of the drug, according to a 2008 United Nations report.(AFP)
西班牙警方表示,他們在巴塞隆納機場逮捕了一名 利用古柯鹼「石膏」來固定斷腿的六十六歲智利男子。
這位從智利聖地牙哥飛往西班牙、跛行下機的男子,在假啤酒罐和兩個被挖空的凳子中夾帶了更多毒品。
警方在聲明中表示:「這名男子有一隻腿骨折,他腿上打的『石膏』全是古柯鹼製成的。」
「他的脛骨和腓骨處有開放性骨折,已被轉送到一間診所進行手術治療。」
聲明中指出:「調查人員正在調查他故意弄傷自己的可能性…好通過安全檢查進行毒品買賣。」
西班牙警方對從南美洲來的所謂「熱門班機」特別留心,因此才對此人起疑,結果證明警方的懷疑是對的。
警方表示,這名智利男子走私的古柯鹼共計四點八五公斤,分別藏在啤酒罐、凳子和他聲稱的「石膏」內。
西班牙是南美洲走私古柯鹼進歐洲的主要轉運站之一,其中大多是從其前殖民地哥倫比亞而來,哥國也是全世界最大的毒品生產國。
根據聯合國二OO八年的報告指出,西班牙已成為歐洲大陸最多人吸食古柯鹼的國家,也是全世界最多人使用毒品的國家之一。(法新社╱翻譯:袁星塵)
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A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
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