Couple jailed after airport ‘workers’ put their identify on cocaine luggage

A pair spent 38 days in a German jail after ‘workers’ at a Brazilian airport put their baggage tags on suitcases full of medication. 

Kátyna Baía and Jeanne Paolini, each of their forties, had been arrested in Frankfurt on suspicion of worldwide drug trafficking after officers found 43kg of cocaine in baggage with their names on. 

An investigation in Brazil discovered the harmless couple had been caught up in a worldwide gang swapping baggage at the São Paulo International Airport, The Sun reported. 

Horrifying CCTV footage seems to indicate the second airport workers took off the couple’s checked-in luggage from the carousel earlier than eradicating the labels and attaching them to the bags full of medication. 

When Ms Baía and Ms Paolini obtained to Germany they had been wrongfully arrested and imprisoned for 38 days on suspicion of drug trafficking.

Kátyna Baía and Jeanne Paolini, each of their forties, had been arrested in Fankfurt on suspicion of worldwide drug trafficking

Horrifying CCTV footage seems to indicate the second airport workers took off the couple’s checked-in luggage from the carousel earlier than eradicating the labels and attaching them to the bags full of medication

The workers may be seen briefly wanting on the CCTV digital camera earlier than switching the labels 

The pair had deliberate an virtually three-week journey to Europe, travelling from the place they dwell in Goiânia, Brazil, to Berlin, with connecting flights in São Paulo and Frankfurt.

Ms Paolini, a vet, instructed The Sun: ‘This complete expertise was an infinite shock for each of us and our households. 

‘I used to be taken to a windowless room, and as quickly as I entered he requested me to place my arms on the wall and handcuffed me saying I used to be underneath arrest.

‘I clearly began to ask why he was arresting me however I may solely perceive the phrase ‘cocaine’ as he was talking German.’

The lady was reunited along with her associate at a police station inside the airport. 

An investigation in Brazil discovered the harmless couple had been caught up in a worldwide gang swapping baggage

CCTV footage reveals workers eradicating labels and attaching them to the drug-filled baggage 

‘It took us no less than 4 hours to lastly perceive what occurred as they [police] needed to name a translator in,’ mentioned Ms Paolini. 

‘It was at that second that we discovered in regards to the 43kg of cocaine within the luggage.’  

She added: ‘It was at that second that we discovered in regards to the 43kg of cocaine within the luggage.’ 

The two girls spent a day in jail earlier than being transported to a listening to, after which they had been taken to a feminine jail for 38 days on the skin of Frankfurt. 

‘At night time, I’d hear all these girls crying, not figuring out if Jeanne was one in all them as we had been in separate cells,’ Ms Baía mentioned. 

‘We additionally misplaced rely of what number of occasions we went by way of strip searches, it was extraordinarily humiliating.’