{"id":556013,"date":"2026-07-01T16:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=556013"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:13:50","slug":"french-and-german-nationals-detained-at-belarusian-border-over-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/french-and-german-nationals-detained-at-belarusian-border-over-drugs","title":{"rendered":"French and German Nationals Detained at Belarusian Border Over Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Two foreign nationals have been detained at the Belarusian-Polish border after drugs were found in their possession, the State Border Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/gpkgovby\/9333\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On June 27, a passenger car carrying a family from Germany entered Belarus through the Brest border checkpoint. During the inspection, a service dog alerted officers to the belongings of a 28-year-old passenger. Border guards found a grinder containing traces of a dark green substance in his bag. An examination confirmed that it was marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign national was also found to be carrying two electronic cigarettes believed to contain cannabis oil and a blister pack of tablets that also attracted the attention of the service dog. These items have been sent for forensic examination.<\/p>\n<p>At the same border checkpoint on June 29, a 22-year-old French citizen was detained. He was entering Belarus by car with relatives who are citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A service dog alerted officers to the man. He did not deny possessing drugs and voluntarily handed over a package containing marijuana. Border guards also found a grinder with traces of the drug in his bag.<\/p>\n<p>A medical examination confirmed that the foreign national had used narcotic substances.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal cases have been opened against both foreign nationals under Part 1 of Article 328 and Part 1 of Article 328-1 of the Criminal Code (illegal drug trafficking and smuggling drugs across the border). Both have been placed in the temporary detention facility of the Brest Border Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two foreign nationals have been detained at the Belarusian-Polish border after drugs were found in their possession, the State Border Committee said. On June 27, a passenger car carrying a family from Germany entered Belarus through the Brest border checkpoint. During the inspection, a service dog alerted officers to the belongings of a 28-year-old passenger. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":556012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a452eb25f709.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"French and German Nationals Detained at Belarusian Border Over Drugs"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}