{"id":36293,"date":"2013-09-23T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T09:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=36293"},"modified":"2013-09-23T13:32:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T09:32:35","slug":"270-million-worth-of-cocaine-found-on-air-france-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=36293","title":{"rendered":"$270 million worth of cocaine found on Air France flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/france-cocaine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36291\" alt=\"france-cocaine\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/france-cocaine.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/france-cocaine.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/france-cocaine-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/france-cocaine-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>There was something odd about the 30 suitcases that showed up on a flight from Venezuela. The colorful bags weren&#8217;t registered to any of the passengers on the plane.<\/p>\n<p>When French officials opened them up, they discovered why &#8212; 1.3 tons of pure cocaine were stuffed inside the anonymous bags.<\/p>\n<p>The catch was made on September 11, but French authorities didn&#8217;t publicize the find until Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Venezuela&#8217;s Public Ministry said that authorities had detained three members of the National Guard in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear exactly what they are accused of doing.<\/p>\n<p>The suitcases came from Caracas aboard an Air France flight to Paris, but did not match any of the passengers on board, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Several&#8221; people have been taken in custody, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls told reporters Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuelan authorities are also investigating.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was something odd about the 30 suitcases that showed up on a flight from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":36291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[1268],"class_list":["post-36293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-france","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}