AFP - A French employee of his country's consulate accused of smuggling dozens of guns from Gaza to Judea and Samaria in an official car appeared in an Israeli court Monday.

Romain Franck, a 24-year-old French citizen, is accused along with several Palestinian Arab suspects of belonging to a gun-running network. He appeared in court in Beersheva.

Franck allegedly took advantage of reduced security checks for consular vehicles to transport the weapons out of the Gaza Strip to Judea and Samaria.