Customs officers at Roland Garros Airport on Réunion arrested a traveller arriving from Paris on Thursday 7 August 2025.[1][2] The traveller, described as a mule, had arrived on a flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle carrying a large quantity of drugs.[1] Questioning in the case was expected to take place during the course of that Thursday.[1]

The interception was described as an important seizure for the Réunion customs officers on duty that day.[1] Officers seized 31 kg of cannabis resin from the traveller in the airport interception.[1][2] Officers also seized 5 kg of cocaine from the same traveller in the same interception.[1] The overall load had initially been described as nearly 35 kilos of drugs before the separate weights were given.[1]

The traveller was carrying the drugs when customs officers stopped him at the airport after the Paris flight landed.[1] The cannabis component recorded here is the 31 kg of resin, while the cocaine is mentioned only to explain the mixed seizure and is excluded from cannabis figures.[1]

Investigations by the territorial judicial police service, the STPJ, identified two other people linked to the trafficking.[2] Three people in total were arrested and placed in police custody, two were remanded in pre-trial detention and the third was released without charge.[3] The national police said its STPJ investigators were working relentlessly to dismantle trafficking of every kind.[4]