![]() ![]() These laboratories, importing opium from the Orient (Indochina through the French Opium Board, Syria and Turkey where cultivation was legal to sell the morphine-base to the pharmaceutical laboratories of this country, the production surpluses being exported clandestinely), were set up by the Marseille godfather at the time, of Corsican origin, Paul Carbone.Ī large part of the opium is smuggled from Indochina to Shanghai from where it is redistributed throughout China. ![]() The first illegal laboratories were discovered near Marseilles, France, in XNUMX. The explanation is that the warehouses of the Régie Indochinoise are regularly robbed, which allows many packets of opium to arrive in Marseilles hidden in the line boats and then to be centralized in a few Marseille bars.įrom the beginning of the 1937th century, Corsican sailors, in service on the Saigon-Marseille maritime line, discreetly conveyed semi-refined opium, this was the era of the “navigators”. Despite this, the French Indochinese authorities continued their productions while officially the metropolitan government was taking action against opium trafficking, in order to meet the needs of wounded soldiers from the First World War.Īround 1930, Blaise Cendrars mentioned that clandestine opium sold for less in Marseille than official opium in Indochina. ![]() In 1912, the first International Convention was signed in The Hague, with a view to eradicating opium trafficking. This opium-oriented policy caused the government to run a surplus in its budget. In Saigon, Doumer had a high-yield opium refinery built. This represents, at the time, one third of the revenue of the general government budget. It is therefore the administration which buys, has the opium prepared and sells it. While Viet Nam was part of the French empire, the future president of the republic, Paul Doumer, then governor general of Indochina, decided to create a state monopoly on opium in the south in the form of a general. ![]()
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