French cops had a big old flex on Twitter after they supposedly staged a huge drug bust last week. Fast forward a couple of days and now everyone is roasting the shit out of them because what the police claimed was €100,000 (roughly AU $150,000) worth of pingas turned out to be a big of sack of Haribo lollies. Yum.
The supposed “narcotics” were found in Saint-Ouen on the outskirts of Paris.
However a day after the tweet, French media reported a toxicology report found “that the powder seized in the apartment was a neutral powder, not falling under either narcotic products or poisonous substance.”
In other words, it wasn’t the huge MDMA haul French cops thought it was.
#BelleAffaire | Investigations fructueuses des👮de la #SDRPT qui ont jugulé à #SaintOuen un atelier de conditionnement de produits stupéfiants (MDMA, ecstasy) qui alimentait des soirées clandestines.
👉1 million d’€ de marchandise saisie
👉200 faits de recel de téléphone
➡️2 GAV pic.twitter.com/mCRTbbaRjZ— Préfecture de Police (@prefpolice) March 17, 2021
Several sources close to the investigation eventually leaked that the powder seized was believed to be crushed Haribo Tagada strawberries, which are apparently among the most popular lollies in France.
Once word got out, French people had an absolute field day on Twitter, ratioing the days-old tweet with memes.
While most of the comments are, understandably, in French, you don’t need to be a linguist to get some of these:
https://twitter.com/MxJn92/status/1373376580907626499
Les soirées clandestines en question https://t.co/KkvSUxUisE pic.twitter.com/x4Gs5PkDjk
— basile fit 🚀 (@Bazz_Ra) March 19, 2021
Un premier portrait robot du chef du cartel: pic.twitter.com/aWbf8B0YhG
— De Ceglinho (@Elphocean_) March 19, 2021
You get the idea.
It’s pretty damn funny to see the cops post such a massive L online and then get owned for it so publicly and so prolifically.
And to think the police could be so easily fooled by snacks made for kids is also lowkey endearing.
However, the suspect in this instance is still on the hook for a bunch of stolen phones that were seized, so he’s not in the clear yet.
The downside of this confectionary-ecstasy switcharoo is that there are probably a whole bunch of Parisians feeling ripped after forking out good money for what amounted to be crushed Haribo lollies.
At least whatever they took probably tasted great.
