Seven months after the first strandings on the Atlantic coast, the mystery of cocaine bales remains unresolved. To date, more than 1.5 tonnes of 83% pure cocaine have been recovered from numerous beaches from the Breton tip to the Landes, where bales were again found in late January. But the investigation, carried out by the specialized interregional jurisdiction of Rennes, for the moment did not allow to know the origin of the drug which was stranded.
"We have carried out important investigations which are still in progress but we have not yet succeeded in identifying the boat at the origin of this unloading", this Friday indicated Philippe Astruc, public prosecutor of Rennes, to the occasion of a conference devoted to the fight against narcotic drugs.
A voluntary load shedding or a transport accident?
It is also unclear whether this massive stranding of cocaine bales followed a voluntary load shedding or a transport accident. "Several hypotheses are possible, but we favor at this time a load shedding following a damage or a storm", Philippe Astruc indicated in November in a press release.
Since then, investigations, which have mobilized up to a hundred investigators, have continued. "We followed the track of several boats, sometimes quite far abroad," said the public prosecutor of Rennes. In vain for the moment, the boat at the origin of this "white tide" still being found. "But we are continuing the research," assured Philippe Astruc.
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