Cocaine trafficking: a shooting in the port of Le Havre

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E.Pelletier, B.Barnier, T.Cuny, A.Lay, L.Nahon, @RevelateursFTV, France 3 Normandy, S.Korwin – France 3

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Tuesday, April 26, a shooting took place in the port of Le Havre, in Seine-Maritime. Plainclothes police tried to arrest drug traffickers. The port of Le Havre is one of the main gateways for cocaine in France.

On the morning of Tuesday April 26, a film scene took place at the port of Le Havre (Seine Maritime). Armed men burst in and robbed the driver of a white van. The van suddenly started and taken the escape, targeted by several shots fired by plainclothes police. Toward 10 a.m.the judicial police of Rouen (Seine Maritime) was monitoring a delivery of cocaine, hidden in the middle of an ordinary cargo, in a blue container towed by a heavy weights.

The traffickers’ van followed him: they had planned to collect the drugs away from the port and were unaware that they were being watched by police. Nothing went as planned: the truck broke down and the cocaine was unloaded on the spot. The police had to intervene urgently and the criminals fled, under fire. In the late afternoon of April 26, the traffickers remained untraceable. In 2021, nearly 19 tonnes of cocaine have been seized by customs.


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