CenturyLinkBERLIN (AP) — The drug haul was unremarkable, but the destination raised eyebrows.
German customs officials intercepted a shipment of cocaine destined for the Vatican in January, weekly Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday.
Officers at Leipzig airport found 340 grams (12 ounces) of the drug packed into 14 condoms inside a shipment of cushions coming from South America, the paper, reported citing a German customs report. It said the package was simply addressed to the Vatican postal office, meaning any of the Catholic mini-state’s 800 residents could have picked it up.
The paper reported that a subsequent sting operation arranged with Vatican police failed to nab the intended recipient. No one claimed the package, indicating that he or she was tipped off about the plan. The drugs would have a street value of several tens of thousands of euros.
A spokesman for the German Finance Ministry, which oversees the customs office, confirmed the report. Prosecutors in Leipzig planned to issue a statement Monday providing further details, Martin Chaudhuri told The Associated Press.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi confirmed that the Vatican police had cooperated with German police in an attempt to identify the traffickers. He said the investigation remained open.
Looks to me like an all-out attempt to smear the Vatican is underway, so it’s important to tell people that it was infiltrated by Jews in 1957, and has been being undermined by them since then.
This drug shipment, like the pedophile priests, is part of destroying their credibility as a religion.
The Pope is a Jew. The last several popes were Jews.
tell ya what JR, if I had even a gram of coke sent to me I would be rotting my dumb ass off in prison for the rest of my so called worthless life no mater how F`n innocent I was !!! and that is a f#@kin fact and I do not care what any one has to say about it!!
I do not care if it was recieved or not I would be rotting my ass of in prison with no hopes of ever getting out