two tons of cocaine found on the beaches of Cotentin

For more than two weeks, investigators have been wondering. Where do the bales of cocaine washed up on the Cotentin beaches come from? Two tons of drugs in airtight bags were found. Since then, an important system has been put in place. A hundred police officers and gendarmes are carrying out the investigation and monitoring the beaches. “It’s out of the norm for us such a quantity“, admits, Tuesday March 14, one of the gendarmes at the origin of the discovery a few days earlier.

Quads looking for drugs

According to a local journalist, residents are witnessing day and night, a strange carousel. Quads would cruise the beach, turning their headlights on and off. According to him, it could be people looking for cocaine. According to investigators, before running aground on the French coast, the drug would have left Colombia, Peru or Bolivia. One detail caught the attention of the investigators: the life jackets surrounding the bales of cocaine. According to them, this is proof that she would have traveled in the water, before being dropped at a rendezvous point. For traffickers, this loss of two tonnes of drugs would represent a loss on sale of 500 million euros.