Summary

In May 1932, Albert Londres let known a secret, while travelling on the steamer back from China, just before dying in the accidental fire of the boat : his discovers of that huge drug traffic was dynamite! What scandal was he up to reveal ? This traffic already knows was spread on all continents, but there was a spot where it was in the hands of a single organization : French Indochina and its » Régie de l’opium ». From the end of the 19th century, to the mid-20th, the opium was the main revenue of this colony. The « Régie de l’Opium », allied with the customs, imposed its monopoly on the entire chain, from raw purchases to supply, through the manufacture « La Bouillerie de Saigon » that supplied a network of 4,000 shops. The monopoly of this « made in France » opium has developed the country (Indochina) at great expense by playing on different and incredible grounds, that made the Régie producing fakes, or traffic with illegal or stolen products.