Some 416 kg of cocaine, with a market value of 31 million euros. On the morning of August 10, Dunkirk customs officials checked five containers from Ecuador and Colombia at the Flanders terminal in the port of Dunkirk, they announced on Tuesday.
In one of the targeted containers from Colombia, officers discovered narcotics concealed in cartons of bananas in a pallet in the second row. “In each box, between 13 and 15 loaves of cocaine were placed in the middle of the bananas whose seal of the plastic packaging bag had been broken”, explain the customs officers. In all, 355 loaves of cocaine for a total weight of 416.144 kg are unearthed. The file was entrusted to the JIRS of Lille.
This seizure comes a week after the seizure of 256 kg of cocaine made in Loon-plage by agents of the National Directorate of Intelligence and Customs Investigations.