A Nigerian drugs smuggler has been arrested in Switzerland with 123 condoms stuffed with cocaine weighing 1.7kg in his stomach, border guards announced.
Michel Bachar, a spokesman for the federal border guards, said the 123 condoms represented the equivalent of a 5.5m long string of sausages or 3.5 liters of milk in volume.
“It’s exceptional,” he told AFP, underlining that the smugglers were dicing with death and that the contents of just one of the condoms could have killed the carrier.
The man was among six people in a French-registered car who were stopped after they ran through a red light and sped past a border post near Geneva earlier this month.
X-rays revealed that four of them were carrying a total of nearly 3kg of cocaine in their stomachs, in 5cm condom packages coated with wax or resin.
At least two other similar cases have been uncovered on the Swiss side of the border in the past four months.
Nine people were arrested in France in a similar case last week on suspicion of taking part in cocaine trafficking between Spain and France.
Swiss border guards recovered all of the swallowed cocaine capsules after several days.(AFP)
瑞士邊境警察宣佈他們逮捕了一名奈及利亞籍的毒品走私販，他的胃裡藏匿了一百二十三個填滿重達一點七公斤古柯鹼的保險套。
聯邦邊境警察發言人米歇爾．巴查爾表示，這一百二十三個保險套總長約等於一串五點五公尺長的香腸，體積約等於三點五公升的牛奶。
他對法新社表示：「這相當罕見。」他強調這名走私販根本就是賭上自己的性命，這其中一個保險套內的古柯鹼量就足以讓他喪命。
本月稍早，這名男子和另外五名乘客搭乘一輛懸掛法國車牌的車輛，在日內瓦附近因闖紅燈及高速衝過邊境檢查哨被攔下。
X光檢查結果顯示，他們其中四個人的胃裡藏有總重近三公斤的古柯鹼，這些古柯鹼被裝在每個五公分的保險套中，外面再塗上蠟或合成樹脂。
過去四個月中，瑞士境內瑞法邊境地區至少就發生了兩起類似案件。
上週在法國也有九名嫌犯因類似案件被逮補，他們企圖在西班牙和法國間走私古柯鹼。
瑞士邊境警察數天後將這些裝有古柯鹼的保險套全數取出。
（法新社╱翻譯：袁星塵）
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