Lucien sarti biography

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    • Lucien Sarti

    French drug trafficker (1937–1972)

    Lucien Sarti (8 October 1937[1] – 28 April 1972[2]) was a French drug trafficker.[3] Sarti was shot to death in Mexico in 1972 in a drug trafficking ring raid.

    Drug smuggling

    On 19 April 1968, Sarti was arrested along with Auguste Ricord and François Chiappe for questioning regarding the robbery of a branch of the National Bank of Argentina.[4] The three were released due to lack of evidence.[4] In April 1972, Sarti was shot to death in Mexico City during a raid of a drug trafficking ring by the Mexican federal police.[3][4][5] A detective in Rio de Janeiro was later suspended from the police force after being accused of accepting a bribe to free Sarti and Helena Ferreira, his girlfriend, from jail earlier in 1972.[6] In January 1975, four French citizens alleged to have supplied heroin to Sarti were among a group of 19 indicted b