By Tony Comiti

We mostly know customs officers as the men in uniform at the border or the airport. But certain officers work as plainclothes men, with very special powers: #DNRED (The National Department of Customs Information and Investigation) is an elite unit of 750 agents, with the job of dismantling the biggest trafficking networks.To get to the head of the networks, these officers use very special methods. Stakeouts, tails, seizures, of course… but also collaboration with smugglers, payments to informers, in other words to a”grass” Informer, a trade that can pay very well, but which can also cost very dear. Marc Fievet, one of the Customs best informers has languished in jail for eleven years. The Canadian authorities sentenced him to life for carrying over 5 tonnes of cocaine for one of drug-smuggling’s godfathers. Marc Fievet claims he was on an infiltration mission for the Customs.Is he an informer abandoned by the Customs or was he playing a double game? We tell his story, worthy of a State scandal.

Cleared by the French justice system in 2006, the General Directorate of Customs continues to bury its head in the sand.

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