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)
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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。
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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。」
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