Belgian drug bunnies put the E into Easter

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A batch of “Belgian rabbits” seized was crafted from a solid lump of MDMA, the raw material for pills of the drug ecstasy. Read more at straitstimes.com.

BRUSSELS – Belgian bunnies will be an Easter treat for kids around the world this weekend, but not all are moulded from the country’s renowned chocolate.

Now, his workspace in an office block in the freight zone at Brussels airport is overflowing with suspect packages – and bags and jars of illegal pills and powders. Mr Meuleneire pressed his handheld scanner – which uses Raman spectroscopy to identify substances by their chemical fingerprint – against one supposed chocolate rabbit and took a reading.“So you see? It’s pure MDMA,” the 61-year-old said. “So here we have, bumpety-bump, one or two kilogrammes of this. With one kilogramme you make six thousand ecstasy pills.”

Packed into a corrugated plastic parcel divider: ketamine, an anaesthetic misused as a recreational drug and one of the fastest growing illegal exports through the airport postal depot.

 

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