Investigators seize 5.7 tons of cocaine on the way to Hamburg. With an estimated street value of 450 million pounds (525 million euros), it is the largest shipment of so-called Class A drugs to have been seized in Great Britain to date.
The drug was confiscated on February 8th in the port of the southern English city of Southampton. The drugs were hidden in a container with bananas from South America. The cocaine was supposed to be distributed from Hamburg and the criminal networks involved should now be identified together with European partners.