A French narcotics officer went on trial on Tuesday, accused of stealing around 50 kilograms of cocaine from police headquarters in central Paris in one of the most embarrassing scandals ever to hit the high-profile force.
The 36-year-old suspect, Jonathan Guyot, will appear in court along with nine other people, including his wife, his policeman brother, and a celebrity fraudster dubbed the “world’s coolest conman”.
They face a range of theft, drugs and money-laundering charges over a 2014 heist within the premises of Paris police headquarters, made famous in French-language detective novels and commonly referred to as the “36 quai des Orfèvres”.
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