Police Iceland finds kilo of cocaine in the belly of a disabled Belgian

reykjavik - The Icelandic police have shared her drugs capture report of 2017. The most important catch was made from the stomach of a Belgian smuggler: one kilo of coke was hidden in his stomach.

On her Facebook page, the Reykjavik police uses her drug seizures last year. All together, 42 kilos of drugs were intercepted. Most at Reykjavik airport. The most spectacular catch was done with a disabled Belgian.

When the Belgian had to go through the scanner, the customs officers saw 106 white packages in his guts. Especially in his intestines and stomach. The Belgian later admitted that he had swallowed the packets of cocaine just before take-off.

'The technique of smuggling drugs into the country through the gut is life-threatening,' says the Icelandic police. 'If one of those packages tears open, you can die. In October, someone with 42 swallowed packages tried to enter the country. One package ripped open. The man lay on the operating table for three hours. In the end he was saved. '