German customs: more drug trafficking through buses

- International bus traffic is increasingly being used to smuggle drugs across the European borders, the German customs finds in Ulm.

In recent weeks took customs officers in buses repeated large quantities of hard drugs like heroin and ecstasy seized.

' International bus lines form a new route, which apparently is very attractive, ' said Henrik Schmieding of customs in Ulm (Baden-Württemberg) on ​​Thursday. ' The bus services are easy to book, cheap, fast and unobtrusive. '

In early March held customs officers in a parking lot in Wendlingen (Baden-Württemberg) a buspassagier, which was found to have 1.2 kilos of heroin in his stomach. The 31-year-old courier was from Amsterdam to Munich. Doctors took 100 packets of drugs in his body. A week before that customs officers held a 29-year-old man in a bus that would smuggle 5,600 ecstasy pills in his laptop to Croatia. With ten other passengers, the customs officers found marijuana and hashish to include.