The French authorities reported today that the country's coastguard seized a shipment of 2,306 kilos of cocaine on a ship from Colombia and was diverted in the Atlantic to the French port of Boulogne-sur-Mer (northwest). EFE
"This is the largest seizure of ever conducted in metropolitan France cocaine", the French customs service, which estimates that the drug would have reached a price of EUR 400 million at retail in the black market (about 440 million today reported dollars).
The operation took place on 10 December, when Gauls agents searched the freighter with 12 crew CARIB PALM Turkish and Ukrainian nationality who had diverted a patrol of the coast guard, the prosecution said.
The drugs were hidden behind a metal screen in the Moldovan flag-of boat, 75 meters long and 12 meters carrying sleeve that was supposed raw materials from the Colombian city of Cartagena and had to dock at the Polish port of Gdansk 16 from December.
The largest seizure of cocaine by the French police was recorded in 2006 on the shores of the Caribbean island of Martinique gala, when 4.3 tons of drugs were discovered on a Panamanian-flagged ship.