A man dressed as a priest caught at Amsterdam’s airport with three kilos of cocaine under his vestments claimed to police that his packages contained “holy sand”, Dutch police said.

Police stopped the man at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport as he was transiting on a flight from South America.

“He refused to be searched saying that he was a religious person and it was not allowed,” Van Aapel said.

“However, this is normal procedure so our officers insisted. They asked him again and after the second time they carried out the search and discovered the man had packs strapped to his legs below his priest’s clothes. He told us they contained holy sand,” he said…

I wonder if he would have been searched if he’d landed where folks usually defer to religious functionaries?