Drug couriers smuggle cocaine from Peru to Rome via Paris bus route

Italian drug couriers transported cocaine from Lima via Paris and a bus to Rome's Tiburtina station, carrying 2.5 kilograms in 379 packets inside their bodies. The two Peruvian men arrived from Munich, exploiting the "no-show" airport method and Schengen land border weaknesses. The couriers used indirect routes to evade law enforcement, combining missed flights with bus travel across porous European borders. Their method involved exploiting families with young children as cover during transit. The Flixbus arrival in Rome highlights how traffickers leverage ground transport vulnerabilities after air travel, using the Tiburtina hub as a delivery point for drugs originating in South America.