Involves find 800 kilos of cocaine after « drop-off » off coast

French investigators have stopped a large supply of cocaine, which was thrown into the sea by a freighter coming from Brazil and was to be brought ashore by a fishing boat. In Normandy at Le Havre, emergency services had applied a fishing boat with 800 kilograms of cocaine and arrested six men and two women, the public prosecutor said in Rennes.

Up to the coast, the drug delivery with a cargo ship driving from Brazil to Amsterdam was forced to put on the French coast guard to put them on in Dunkerque. The 22-member crew was arrested and the ship was searched.

Helicopter and boats in use

The spectacular nightly police operation with around 100 civil servants, various boats and a helicopter had preceded a year and a half of the investigative work. A speedboat was also involved in the smuggling, which collected the drug packages driving in the sea and brought it to the fishing boat.

The ports in northern France and especially in Le Havre have been important import ports for cocaine in Europe for years. The criminals also use the so-called “drop-off method”: they throw out cargo packages from cargo ships so that smaller boats can collect them later. However, this sometimes goes wrong – two tons of cocaine were washed out on beaches almost two years ago on the English Channel near Cherbourg.