As a first-tier city, Guangzhou's superior geographical environment and convenient modern life have attracted groups of foreign tourists to come here and even settle here.
Therefore, Guangzhou Airport always presents an endless stream of scenes, and foreign friends continue to come to visit. But as recently as 2016, nine foreign men entered Guangzhou.
However, the lack of luggage carried attracted the attention of customs officials and, after ascertaining the circumstances, was sentenced to death.
What's going on here?
Why did the entry of the good end evolve into a scene of arrest of criminals?
Today readers will take you to understand.
01 A "farce" at Baiyun Airport
At 10 p.m. on May 20, 2016, it was supposed to be an extremely calm night, but with the landing of a plane from Ethiopia, Africa, the silence of the night was shattered.
That night, a black man hurried out of the research room, followed by police officers. But because it was almost midnight.
There were not many passengers stopping at the airport, only scattered people, so the fleeing man had no object to hide.
Passers-by also extended a helping hand to the police, blocking the man's way, and even though he made a dying struggle, the man was eventually subdued by the police.
In this way, this also became the center of the discussion of the passengers at the airport that night. Passengers saw the scene in front of them and knew only that the black man had been successfully arrested by the police.
But why was the black man desperately trying to escape?
Why was a foreign man arrested by the police at the Guangzhou airport?
It turned out that on the same night, a plane landed at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, and after the plane landed smoothly, the passengers picked up their luggage and walked off the plane.
And according to the rules of international flights, all passengers are lined up for customs inspection.
In the queue, compared with the large and small heavy luggage of other passengers, there is a man who is just carrying a simple handbag, in contrast, this man naturally attracted the attention of the customs staff.
Just when the customs staff set their eyes on the man, the man's eyes were somewhat evasive, and he did not dare to look at the customs officers.
The customs officer who noticed this situation was immediately alarmed by the alarm bell in his heart. Just when it was the turn to check the man's luggage, the customs staff was also extremely cautious.
However, the man's backpack was not found to be anything unusual, and it was filled with ordinary toiletries and daily necessities.
However, this did not eliminate the suspicion of the customs staff against him, and then the staff, in a responsible manner, asked the man a series of routine questions.
In the face of the questions raised by the customs, the man's way of answering made the staff feel that he had already memorized the answers, as if he had done his homework in advance.
Subsequently, in order to find out the identity of the man, the customs staff took him to the research room to prepare for a deeper exchange with him.
At first, when faced with customs questions, the man was able to remain calm and self-assured and answer questions clearly. But as the problem deepened, the man's face was visibly bitter.
The look was also panicked, the eyes dodged and dodged, obviously did not expect the customs to inquire in such detail, and did not fully prepare for the response in advance.
Seeing the man's status, the customs staff also realized the seriousness of the matter, which must be strange, so they quickly contacted the police.
Customs officials have also been trying to delay time while the police arrived. The police who received the news also quickly came to the research room at the first time.
But I did not think that after seeing the police, the man acted even more panicked, and when he continued to interrogate the police, he could not hide his anxious emotions after all.
Taking advantage of the police's lack of attention, he quickly escaped from the research room, which led to the picture we described at the beginning. After the police arrested the man, he was questioned again.
However, in the face of constant questioning by the police, the man remained silent, but based on years of experience in handling cases, the police believed that the black man was likely to be a mule transporting drugs.
02 "Mules" transporting drugs
Mules are also people who hide drugs with their bodies, and for those drug trafficking gangs, they do not regard these people as lives at all.
In their eyes, the "mule" is only a tool for transporting drugs, in order to facilitate the carrying, they use humans or machines to compress drugs into the shape of capsules.
And wrapped in plastic tape, plastic wrap, etc. on the outside, so that the "mule" to swallow and other ways, it is placed in its own organs, to achieve cross-border or cross-regional transportation.
This way of transporting drugs to the human body is not easy to detect and is highly concealed.
Therefore, for a long time, this has also become a way for drug traffickers to survive. At the same time, in this way of dealing with drugs, the "mule" becomes a key factor in determining success or failure.
Because of this, drug traffickers are also extra cautious when choosing "mules", and most of the objects they choose are extremely poor and desperate people.
Even some dehumanizing drug traffickers use pregnant women or people with mental illness to act as "mules" .
Not only that, the drugs that take this mode of transportation are generally of high purity, which is harmful to the human body.
Drug traffickers would ask "mules" to hide these in their intestines, anus, or more intimate parts, although they would pack seven or eight layers of them around the perimeter of the drugs before transporting them.
But over time, because people inevitably have to drink water, go to the toilet, walk around, all kinds of natural objective factors, may lead to the rupture of drugs in the body.
Once such a high purity drug breaks in the body, these "mules" are bound to die.
The "mules" themselves are aware of this danger.
But in order to gamble, in order to be able to earn a relatively considerable income, they gambled their lives to act as a tool for transporting drugs.
However, it is precisely because they know the harm of human poison storage, and their behavior during this period is also extra cautious, which has also become the entry point for the police to seize the case of human poison storage.
During the transportation of drugs, "mules" will try to avoid drinking water and going to the toilet in order to prevent the occurrence of drug ruptures.
Over time, they tend to have dry mouths, dark lips, and their expressions are different from ordinary people, and they will show some symptoms of mild poisoning.
The police also relied on these subtle clues to crack one case after another of human drug possession cases.
Therefore, the police began to suspect that the black man was hiding drugs.
03 More than a number of drug dealers have been arrested, and the situation is serious
Subsequently, the police took the man to the hospital for examination.
Unsurprisingly, there was a lot of capsule-like heroin in the man's digestive tract.
After the police's suspicions were confirmed, they handed the man over to the anti-narcotics police, who then conducted an in-depth investigation into the case.
However, these "mules" did not have direct contact with drug trafficking gangs, and the man who killed the man was still foreign, and the transnational nature added a lot of difficulty to the case.
However, just when the police launched an investigation into the matter, the anti-drug police received a call from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, and the other party said that it caught a "mule" suspected of being a human body drug at the airport.
They behaved the same way as the black man, landing at Baiyun Airport with simple luggage, and then looking panicked and not daring to look at the customs officers.
In addition, the timing of events was so close that customs officers raised their vigilance in this regard after one or two times.
But to their surprise, over the next eleven days, together with the black man, they found a total of nine foreign drug dealers.
This is not a coincidence or accident, this matter quickly attracted the attention of the police, and the superior also sent a lot of manpower and material resources into the detection of this case.
Subsequently, the nine drug dealers were sent to the hospital for examination, and in their bodies, they were more or less full of various drugs, and they were all people with various diseases.
The nine drug dealers from Ethiopia also had a very dismal life, and their lives were made worse by their serious illness.
In this case, they chose this adventure, which was already running out of time, although they were paid only one-thousandth of the profit of the transaction afterwards.
But for them, it is the key to emergency. At the same time, in order to ensure their safety, the police arranged for them to carry out "detoxification".
However, because of the differences between human physiques, there is a drug dealer who can never excrete one of the drug capsules during the detoxification process.
As the capsules stay in the body longer and longer, the risk of the capsules breaking increases, and the drug dealer wants to earn a living expense that is still high for him.
But he didn't want to really lose his life because of this, which made him very afraid. Seeing the situation, the mainland police are also in the spirit of humanitarianism.
A doctor was arranged to perform surgery on it and the capsule was finally successfully removed.
04 Due punishment
After the successful operation, the drug dealer knew that with the help of the Chinese police, he was able to escape.
Therefore, reporting gratitude and guilt to the mainland police, the man finally confessed some of the information he knew, and after investigation, the nine drug dealers were all responsible for the same drug trafficking gang.
However, drug dealers choose to hide drugs in humans because after the "mules" are found or arrested by the police, they can choose to abandon them in the first place to avoid suffering.
Therefore, even though the police knew that there was a large drug trafficking gang behind this, the nine drug dealers had already become discarded pawns, and the information they gave was very little.
In addition, this is a transnational case, and in this case where there is so little evidence, the police can only investigate a little bit.
By contrast, the crimes of the nine black men carrying drugs were a foregone conclusion, as they all carried more than 50 grams of drugs and were ultimately sentenced to death.
Although they are also forced by life, choosing this way of drug trafficking is really harmful to others and cannot be forgiven.
In countless movies, we can all see that drug users do not have any good end in the end, and all of them are ruined and their wives are separated.
Drug addicts naturally have certain faults, and they lack firm self-control. In addition, the so-called "no trade, no killing".
If there were no such drug traffickers, where would there be any drug addicts? These cross-border drug traffickers are even more hateful, and they will not hesitate to eat the people of other countries in a high-risk form.
Among them, there are even teenagers who have not yet reached adulthood, because of a momentary curiosity, and finally ruined their entire lives, and there are more highly educated talents who should have been able to go all the way to SF Shunshui, and eventually they were corrupted by drugs.
The harm of drugs to people is not only physical, but also a key factor that leads to rebellion, which will affect everyone around them and is the source of all evil.
It is precisely because drugs have such a serious harm that the anti-drug police will desperately rush to the forefront, and will have zero tolerance for drug stars in the entertainment circle that should play a positive guiding role for the people.
Although the process of drug production and trafficking has a certain degree of concealment, drug traffickers are also extremely cunning, sometimes even a huge gang.
However, in the face of the enemy, the anti-drug police have never been afraid, and in order to protect the physical and mental health of their own people, they have devoted all their bodies and minds to anti-drug operations.
Time and again, with keen insight, one drug trafficking case after another has been seized, saving countless runaway teenagers and families.
I hope that in the near future, the people's legal awareness can be improved and a drug-free society will be realized as soon as possible!
Resources
"Teenagers "Mule" Drug Trafficking Is Thought-Provoking", China Youth Network, 2019, 7, 13
"The Mule Carries Poison with The Body" Reference Network 2020.2.5
"Guangzhou Customs Seized 9 Cases of Human Drug Smuggling in 11 Days", CCTV News, June 19, 2016