Paris narcotics kingpin case crowns Carrere's hunch
In a landmark Paris narcotics bust, Marcel Carrere and five agents trailed Jean Breuil and his companion Marie-France Fernandez for 83 days from Aug to Oct 1970. A hidden compartment yielded $20.8 million worth of heroin and a dramatic arrest at Port d Orleans. The chase spanned Bayonne to London, Dieppe to Newhaven, ending with Carrere’s decisive order and a high‑stakes seizure.
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Paris
UPI
Marcel Carrere
Police Judiciaire
Turkey
Big Daddy
Carrere
Europe
Jean Breuil
Marie-France Fernandez
U.S
Narcotics Bureau
United States
Port d’Orleans
Breuil
Biarritz
London
Marseilles
Bahamas
Dieppe
Bayonne
France
Rue Des Saussaies
Newhaven
AMI-8
Patron
Fernandez
Uil
Massive drug haul caps France narcotics case
In a Paris police action led by Carrere, Jean Breuil and Marie-France Fernandez were linked to a vast heroin operation. Authorities traced a Citroen AMI-8 carrying 46 kilos of heroin from Marseilles to Paris, where mechanics uncovered the cargo hidden under a car seat. The capture was hailed as the largest in French police history, with potential life terms under new penalties debated after the arrest.
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Liverpool Dock
Breuil
Marseilles
Hideaway Laboratories
Liverpool
Paris
France
Big Daddy
Simone Signoret
Scotland Yard
Marie-France
San Sebastian
Jose Luis Fernandez
Martigues
Appalachia
Carrere
Jose Fernandez
Heathrow Airport
Redcliffe Square
Earls Court
London
Eurocars
Bayswater Road
Fernandez
Rue Des Saussaies
Jean Breuil
Biarritz
Princess Soraya
New Scotland Yard
Bahamas
Pacific Reliance
The
Steamship Navigation Co
Liverpoool
Bayonne Re
Port d’Orleans
Renault
Police Judiciaire
Meudon
Interior Ministry
Marie- France Fernandez
National Assembly
Raymond Marcellin
Ten years of WFCR public radio in New England
WFCR Amherst marks its 10th anniversary this March as a non commercial station serving Western New England. Supported by UMass and nearby colleges, it broadcasts 18 hours daily with at least eight hours of stereo music and 35 000 watt power, earning three Major Armstrong Awards.
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Mass
Connecticut
New England
WFCR
University of Massachusetts
Umass
Hampshire
Mount Holyoke
Smith
Eastern Public Radio
United States
Canada
Fred Calland
Carlos Montoya
Connecticut Valley
Migrant Health Program
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Charles Keenan
Black Mass Communications Project
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Cassoulet
Mrs. Fernandez
Napoleon
English Channel
Peter Paul Rubens
America
New England Radio
Wgbh-Fm
Boston
Smith College
University
Federal Communications Commission
Mount Lincoln
Pelham
Educational Radio Network
Albany
Philadelphia
Washington, D.C
Umass School of Education
al Hulsen
Hampshire House
Armstrong
Seymour Itzkoff
Emanuel Feuermann
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