More than 400 kilos of cocaine were discovered Tuesday by customs in Dunkirk in the North.
The container from Colombia where the drug was hidden was filled with bananas, according to the Dunkirk prosecutor's office, which relinquished jurisdiction in favor of the specialized interregional jurisdiction (Jirs) of Lille.
About 400 kilos of cocaine were seized Tuesday by customs at the port of Loon-Plage, in Dunkirk, in the North.
The drugs were hidden in a container from Colombia.
It was a classic morning for these northern customs officers.
On the program: five containers to check, from Colombia and Ecuador.
Inside, basic brown boxes filled with bananas.
For Ecuadorian containers, nothing to report.
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355 concealed drug bags
On the other hand, in the Colombian boxes, by removing the first layer of bananas, they discover loaves of cocaine hidden in the heart of the merchandise.
They then check everything else in each box.
In the middle of the fruit whose plastic packaging bags have been meticulously torn by the traffickers, each time they find around fifteen sachets of drugs.
In all, there are 355, or nearly half a ton of cocaine.
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To give an idea, last year throughout France, customs seized 9 tons.
For resale on the market, these 416 kilos of cocaine still represent, according to customs, more than 31 million euros.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the specialized interregional court of Lille.