By Euro Weekly News Media • Published: 16 May 2014 • 8:42
Picked up: Police arrested man at luggage reclaim.
The National Police in Son Sant Joan airport in Palma detained a Maghrebi man when they suspected him of carrying drugs inside his body.
He was held at the baggage reclaim terminal as he was picking up his luggage from a flight from North Africa.
He was obliged to undergo an x-ray exam after which it was confirmed that he had “foreign objects” inside his body.
The passenger was arrested and stands accused of crimes against public health.
He was moved to the hospital at Son Espases where he began to expel the foreign objects from his body.
He had more than 100 date-shaped hashish packets and once he left the hospital he was taken to the police station in Palma.
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