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charlie in Vatican johnnies SMUGGLERS’ plans to sneak cocaine into the Vatican have come in for some ribbing after a haul of the drug was found hidden inside condoms. German customs officials were no doubt snorting with laughter when they intercepted the shipment destined for the Vatican. Officers at Leipzig airport in Germany found 340 grammes of the drug packed into 14 condoms inside a shipment of cushions from South America. The package was simply addressed to the Vatican postal office, so any of the Catholic mini-state’s 800 residents could have picked it up after it arrived.
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The Bild Am Sonntag newspaper reported that a subsequent sting operation arranged with Vatican police failed to nab the intended recipient. No one claimed the package, indicating that he or she was tipped off about the plan. The drugs would have a street value of tens of thousands of euro. Va t i c a n spokesman the Reverend Federico Lombardi confirmed that the Vatican police had cooperated with German police in an attempt to identify the traffickers and that the investigation was still open.
Any of the Vatican’s 800 residents could have picked it up
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