Drugs worth billions
Germany: Police make biggest cocaine find to date
German investigators say they have succeeded in striking the biggest blow to date against cocaine trafficking in our neighboring country. Searches were carried out in seven federal states and seven arrest warrants were executed, according to the report.
As the Stuttgart customs investigation office and the Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office announced on Friday, "dozens of tons of cocaine worth several billion euros were taken out of circulation". According to the "Bild" newspaper, 35 tons of cocaine are involved.
The German investigators speak of "extensive access and search measures". However, the authorities only want to provide details of the investigations at a press conference in Düsseldorf on Monday.
Raids in Munich, Bonn and Berlin, among others
According to the information, raids were carried out in Bonn, Cologne, Leverkusen, in the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg and Lower Saxony, in the Bavarian capital of Munich, in Berlin, Hamburg and in Frankfurt am Main in Hesse.
Repeated finds in the port of Hamburg
More and more cocaine has been seized in the port of Hamburg in recent years. One find in February 2021 was particularly spectacular: customs investigators discovered more than 16 tons of narcotics in five containers from Paraguay in one go - according to official figures, the largest amount of cocaine ever seized in Europe.
By comparison, the total amount of cocaine seized by German authorities in 2019 was just over ten tons. According to the Federal Criminal Police Office, the total amount of narcotics seized increased sevenfold between 2018 and 2023.
Drug arrives in containers from South America
More and more cocaine is coming to Germany in containers from South America. The amount of cocaine seized in the port of Hamburg has tripled in the last five years, the Hamburg Senate announced in May. It is still unclear whether the record find has already been counted.
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