More than Two tons of cocaine washed up on French Channel beaches last weekend and Wednesday., as it became known today from a source close to the investigation. The value of drugs on the market is estimated at 150 million euros.

Sunday morning, on the beach of Reville, in the northwest. France, several bags were found containing about 850 kilograms of cocaine. Yesterday another six bags washed up on the shore of Vic-sur-Mer. This time they contained 1.5 tons of cocaine, the source said, confirming the report in the local Ouest-France newspaper. 2.3 tons of cocaine is a “historical” record.

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It is still unknown where the hermetically sealed bags came from. They may have been thrown overboard by traffickers to avoid being searched, or they may have accidentally fallen off the boat. Another source, also close to the investigation, said that sometimes bags of drugs are not kept inside the ship, but smugglers tie them to the hull, and they can, especially when the sea is rough, come off and leave.

It’s not the first time that packets of cocaine have been dumped on French beaches. At the end of 2019, 1.6 tons were found on the beaches from Saint-Jean-de-Luz to Camaret, and in May last year, parcels weighing 21 kilograms were found on the beach in Berck in northern France.

In 2022, 27.7 tons of cocaine were detected and seized in France, up 5% from the previous year.

Source: APE-MPE-AFP.