With a value of 130 million euros… two tons of cocaine were seized in a French port

Today, Saturday, the French Gendarmerie revealed the seizure of two tons of narcotic cocaine inside a container in a qualitative security operation in the port of Havre in the Saint-Maritime department, in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Gendarmerie members in the city of Rouen, the capital of the province, led the security operation to seize drugs in the port on December 30, managed by the Judicial Department for Combating Organized Crime.

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The French National Gendarmerie added on the “X” platform today, Saturday: “This security operation by the Gendarmerie in Rouen puts an end to widespread drug trafficking operations in the port.”

According to a statement by the Public Prosecutor of the Republic in Paris, Laure Picot, two men, one a dock worker and the other a truck driver, were charged with introducing drugs into an organized gang, criminal complicity, and smuggling goods dangerous to public health.
In the details of the operation, the criminals first succeeded in pushing a misleading container to the port bearing marks identical to the container loaded with cocaine in order to avoid being examined by scanners.
C News quoted Colonel Curlew at the port as saying: “As far as we know, this method is being used for the first time in the port of Havre,” and investigations are now continuing to uncover “all the accomplices and participants” in the crime.
According to the same press release from the Public Prosecutor’s Office published in French media today, prison sentences for such crimes reach 30 years, and the value of the cocaine seized is estimated at more than 130 million euros.