Chocolate rabbits are a delicious Easter treat for children all around the world. But some bunnies seized in Belgium are far less kid-friendly and have (literally) put the E into Easter.
A batch of rabbits has been seized this week by veteran customs officer Pol Meuleneire, a cargo crafted from a solid lump of MDMA, the raw material for ecstasy.
The false chocolate bunnies had been parcelled up and posted in Belgium, addressed to a buyer in Hong Kong, only to be intercepted at the Brussels airport freight terminal.
Meuleneire pressed his scanner – which uses Raman spectroscopy to identify substances by their chemical fingerprint – against one supposed chocolate rabbit and took a reading. The screen flashed green with the following result: “Caution: MDMA (ecstasy)”.
“So you see? It’s pure MDMA,” the 61-year-old said. “So here we have, bumpety-bump, one or two kilogrammes of this. With one kilogramme you make six thousand ecstasy pills.”
