Several hundred kilos of cocaine were recovered on Sunday by the authorities on a beach in northern France, according to a judicial source.
Out of “thirty bags seized”, the “first tests” carried out are “positive for cocaine”, Pierre-Yves Marot, prosecutor in Cherbourg, a town near the Réville beach where was found, told journalists on Monday. Drugs.
The weighings revealed “at this stage between 700 and 800 kg of product” contained in the packages discovered on the coast on Sunday, he said.
Cocaine has already been found on the French coasts. Thus, at the end of 2019, bales containing a total of 1,600 kg of cocaine washed up on the beaches of an area ranging from Saint-Jean-de-Luz in the southwest to Camaret in the northwest.
More recently, at the end of May 2022, cocaine loaves, for a total of around 21 kg, were found on a beach in Berck in northern France.