A Pakistani wanted to smuggle tens of thousands of dried poppies from Austria to Italy – the man from Carinthia was taken out of traffic during a check on the Italian highway. In Italy, a substance from the tubers is abused as a drug, but in Austria they are legally available.
The management managed to secure 47 kilos of dried poppies – about 35,000 poppy bulbs, Friulian media reported on Friday. The man lives in the Lombard city of Mantua.
Each tuber, emptied and dried, contains a drug substance that acts like heroin. Alternatively, the tuber can also be smoked. In Italy, the use of this drug is particularly widespread.
Legally available in Austria as a decorative material
The tubers had previously been purchased in Austria, where they are sold legally because they are used as decorative material, the police said. In the past, large quantities of poppy seeds smuggled into Italy were seized by the border police in Tarvisio.
Source: Krone
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