The borders between Spain and France appear to be a mecca for drug dealers. There are often stories in the French newspapers about the dealers they catch, must be a huge problem and there must be dozens if not hundreds they do not catch. On the A9 between Narbonne and Perpignon there are often speed chases which in French are described as " go fast" another English term slipping in to the French language. The latest "go fast "saw a black mercedes ( if you were a drug dealer would you have a black mercedes?) driving at speeds of 240 kms an hour trying to out run the gendarmes with tragic consequences. There were 3 cars on the "go fast" the first disappeared off up the motorway, the second hit a car in front at 240kms and a passenger was thrown out and killed. The third car which was caught had a known crook in the back handcuffed, beaten and barely alive, so heavens knows what his fate would have been if the car had not been caught. Apparently 178 kilos of cannabis was found in one of the cars. I suppose it also makes all the gun crime in Marseille between gangs of dealers more understandable. It all reads like a crime novel but it happened yesterday here in SW France .
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