More than a ton of cocaine, worth several tens of millions of euros, was seized on Friday aboard a boat diverted to the port of Dunkirk, AFP learned on Tuesday (October 5th) from a source close to investigation and police source.
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The twenty crew members of various nationalities (Russians, Ukrainians, Filipinos and Ethiopians), including the Romanian captain, were arrested, said the source close to the investigation, confirming information from the newspaper
La Voix du Nord
.
They were de-ironed in the morning in Paris at the end of their custody, said the police source.
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The national court in charge of the fight against organized crime (Junalco) was seized.
The drugs were hidden in the hold of the boat, the Trudy, flying the flag of Liberia, intercepted "
on the basis of information
", according to the source close to the investigation.
Coming from Brazil, the ship was on its way to a port in northern Europe.
Some 1,127 kg of drugs in total were seized, the police source said.