Three unsuspecting ‘chocolate’ Easter bunnies have been kidnapped at Brussels airport. The candies were originally made from MDMA, a synthetic substance commonly known as ecstasy, and were likely designed to be processed into easy-to-sell pills. Florence Angelici, spokesperson for the finance department of the Belgian Federal Public Service, said the rabbits, which weighed a total of 1.8 kilograms, were “discovered in a postal package sent from a fake address in Belgium to a private property in Australia.”
The drug was found thanks to the intervention of a customs officer near the hostel named Pol Meuleneire, who discovered MDMA as a chocolate substitute using Raman spectroscopy, a technique that can identify substances based on their chemical content. according to the newspaper BulletinThe bizarre seizure of rabbits is the latest in a long line of bizarre objects confiscated by Brussels airport authorities for containing illegal substances.
Last week, a ‘schiscetta’ or lunch box from the Peppa Pig cartoon was found at a Belgian airport filled with ketamine. Customs officials also recently found a bag of meth crystals inside the box of Little Chemists, a children’s game similar to Little Chemist.
Agent Meuleneire personally told the Belgian press how times have changed since the beginning of his career, finding 10 grams of hashish in an envelope caused excitement at customs.
“We seized about six tons of drugs at the airport in 2022,” Angelici said. Illegal substances are “circulating around the world” due to “online orders placed on the dark web that allow you to pick them up at home with just a few clicks” through illegal channels. Currently, the port of Antwerp is considered one of the main entry points for cocaine from Latin America into Europe, and all of Belgium has now become a distribution center for synthetic drugs produced in Europe and often sent to the rest of the world by mail.
Source: Today IT
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