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Suspect British drug kingpin says confession 'just a script'

Robert Dawes is accused of smuggling 1.3 tonnes of cocaine in an Air France plane into Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport in 2013 [Courtesy]

A British man suspected of orchestrating one of the most brazen cocaine trafficking shipments to Europe in recent years told a French court Tuesday that his bragging about it was "just a script."

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