French Police arrest three canadians on drug running charge. The Police made a magnificant coup when they traced a military trunk addressed to the Gare du Nord in Paris, and when it was opened it was found to cotain a top layer of clothes and underneath in a separate panel sachets of heroin weighing 500 grammes and 18 kilos of pure heroin altogether worth 90 million france. The drug was to have been sold outside of France. Photo shows The Military trunk on left as it looked when opened , and later when the secret panel had been penetrated at the Commissioner of Police office in Paris.
Photo measures 10.25 x 6.25 inches.
Photo is dated 8-19-1971.
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