CAIRO: Police at Cairos international airport arrested an Egyptian man returning from France on Friday with over 600 narcotic pills and two packs of marijuana stuffed into a carton of dates, according to airport authorities.
Egyptian customs officials found 620 tablets of Tramadol, the powerful opioid painkiller, along with marijuana wrapped in cellophane, hidden in a box of Medjool dates a type of sweet, tree-dried fruits that the man had brought back with him from Paris.
The unidentified passenger was detained and faces possible charges for violating Egypts anti-narcotics and smuggling laws, said Ibrahim Abdel-Latif, an official in the airports custom authority.
Tramadol is listed by Egyptian authorities as an illegal drug because it is widely used as a heroin substitute.
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