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on the French border. Eight and a half months in prison. In 1995 he was arrested in a restaurant. The police found more than one kilo of coke in his apartment and in his car. Market value: 180,000 Swiss Francs. During the investigation, Meyer continues to deal - and is caught again: three years in
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