How was the story of the cocaine expedition to the Basque Country in which a Rosario is accused?

In summer 2017, seven Greek citizens rented a house on a beach in southwestern France. They said that they were filmmakers who had made a documentary about surfing and that they were walking rashly in 4x4s. In addition, they revealed to those who saw them that they had semi-rigid boats (gomones). In this context, on June 20, 2017, a fisherman believed to see a shipwreck on the banks of Mimizán, a small town bathed by the waters of the Bay of Biscay, in the French Basque Country. And that's why he alerted the fire department. Arrived at the beach to badist the castaways, they met the so-called Greek filmmakers, wet and exhausted by the gomones. And with them 1.5 tons of cocaine of the highest purity on the beach. All were imprisoned in flagrante delicto.

Shortly after, a raid on the house rented by the fake filmmakers allowed to find 200 kilos of additional cocaine. It was the beginning of the end for a sailor from Rosario, who fell out of favor last Saturday, suspected of being the helmsman who guided the sailboat that crossed the Atlantic Ocean with 1.7 tons of cocaine of maximum purity for a value oscillating between 170 million euros. As a result, the French courts had requested his arrest and extradition on 7 November last year.

At my moms

Luciano Eugenio Conocchiari is from Rosario and is 42 years old. He is the man wanted by the French justice and arrested on Saturday, March 30 in front of his mother's home, Oroño and Urquiza boulevard, in the center of this city, and two days later, he was sitting on the bench. the accused before the federal judge. Marcelo Bailaque, who replaces Carlos Vera Barros (in possession of a license), and after corroborating his information, told the magistrate six words: "I do not want to be extradited to France". This response opened an extradition process that could last for months.

Since his arrest, French justice has 45 days to formalize the petition, according to the sources of the investigation. Given the treaty initialed by Foreign Ministers Héctor Timerman and Alain Juppé in July 2011, the detainee could apply to be tried in Argentina and serve his sentence in that country, which has not yet been requested, the charges carried by the French justice is contained in the laws 23 737 (narcotics) and 22 415 (code of customs).

Luciano Conocchiari is known as "Lucho" and has been indicted by the Bordeaux District Court for "offense of unauthorized importation of narcotics committed by an organized gang, unauthorized transport of narcotics, possession unauthorized narcotics, unauthorized acquisition of narcotics and participation in a group meeting or an agreement put in place for the preparation of offenses punishable by 10 years imprisonment ".

Like in a series

What happened during the first 20 days of June 2017 can be part of a movie script. Or a chapter of "Fariña", the series that paints a picture of corruption and violence among drug clans in Galicia (Spain) in the 80s. As former tobacco traffickers by the way maritime, they take the step towards the world. of drugs.

This series tells the life of seven Greeks, a Moldovan, an Iraqi and a Spaniard detained on the beaches of Mimizán, a small town in the French Basque Country, located 110 km from Bordeaux (France) and 160 km from San Sebastian (Spain ). . Last week, Rosario "Lucho" Conocchiari joined this group. He was brought to trial a year and a half after seizing drugs in southwestern France.

"It is not normal for drugs to be landed this way on the French coast, it is normal for the drug to reach 200 or 500 kilos per container in an ultra-maritime vessel," said a French spokesman. .

In early June 2017, three weeks before the discovery of the drug on the beaches of Mimizán, a group of five Greeks had rented a house 10 kilometers from the village of Escource, in the region of New Aquitaine. They said that they were filmmakers who made a documentary about surfing. They arrived in two huge Chrysler Dodge 4x4s with German patent. A few days later, they were joined by two other Greeks in a Volkswagen Touareg 4×4. They had at least three semi-rigid boats (gomones). They were far from respecting the discrete code. On the afternoon of June 19, the neighbors saw them at Espécier, a beach 10 kilometers south of Mimizán, with three 4x4s and gomones.

Climatologically, it was not the best dawn to think of a landing. Around 6 o'clock in the morning, a fisherman witnessed a scene that shocked him. A semi-rigid boat had returned to her eyes in strong winds, at low tide and in a mixture of fog and darkness. He did not hesitate and called the authorities. What the fisherman did not know was what lies behind this "shipwreck". Hundreds of kilos of well-packaged, moisture-protected cocaine fell into the sea and the tide dragged them to the coast.

When firefighters and gendarmes arrived at the beach around 6:30 with the idea of ​​helping the shipwrecked, they met a group of exhausted and wet Greeks. And within a radius of a few meters, a pair of 4×4 vehicles, some ammunition and 44 packages containing 1.5 tons of cocaine. The Greeks dressed in diving suits tried to explain in English what they were doing there, but the French uniforms stopped them.

Immediately, an express search was authorized in the alleged filmmakers of the city of Escource. There they found another 200 pounds of drugs. In total, eleven people fell prey. Then the researchers started talking about "The Greek relationship".

The detainees in the Basque Country, between 24 and 25 June last year, were questioned by a judge of the Interregional Directorate of Judicial Police (DIPJ) of Bordeaux, competent throughout the south-west of the France, but did not provide significant details. . French researchers began working on the badumption that the drug had been transported on a sailboat and that transhipment had materialized at half an hour off the coast off the coast. The exterior doors to the investigation were no longer known from the case until in October 2018 a sailboat 4 meters wide and 14 meters in length called " Ayane "was kidnapped in Getxo, a Spanish municipality 12 kilometers from Bilbao.

Skipper rosarino

According to the information contained in the extradition request issued in France, the vessel sought by the investigators was "officially identified as" Ayane "and, at the time of the crossing, the skipper (captain or master of the ship having the capacity to sail in the waters) was none other than the Rosario Luciano Eugenio Conocchiari ", who was thus involved in the cause.

It has also been learned that the skipper is responsible for sending an exit message called role. In this document, the crew and captain are identified, the route the vessel will follow and the estimated time of the trip are indicated. This information, it was deduced, could be the key invoked by the French justice to reach the prisoner currently imprisoned.

On November 7th, the tribunal de grande instance of Bordeaux ordered his arrest and extradition to France. Four days later, this capture order was formalized for all of Europe. This order was published in the Interpol systems for drug trafficking, then to the Federal Investigations into Fugitives and Extraditions Division of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) "began with criminal intelligence tasks to find the fugitive, "the sources said.

Luciano Conocchiari "was involved in the case for having participated, as co-author or accomplice, in the preparation of the import of narcotics between 1 January 2017 and 20 June 2017 and during his production in the night from 19 to 19 April to 20 June 2017 ", specifies the request for extradition. Last Saturday, March 31, he was imprisoned a few meters from his mother's house.

The boat in which the drug had been transferred from Colombia to France was barred by Rosario Conocchiari Conocchiari Conocchiari.