Off the coast of Spanish Galicia, the main gateway for drugs to the European continent, a 20-meter-long "
narco submarine
" was seized by the Guardia Civil at the end of 2019. Inside: three tons of cocaine, worth more than 100 million euros.
A few months earlier, the semi-submersible had been carefully assembled in South America, with the aim of crossing the Atlantic Ocean, filled to the brim.
An unprecedented criminal operation.
It took nearly 240 intelligence investigators from Spain, Portugal or the United States to put an end to it.
Incredibly, the case even recently inspired a series on Amazon Prime,
Operation Black Tide
.
This method of delivery, profitable but ultra-risky, has since never been spotted on the European continent.
But another phenomenon "
of the same family, more clever, more discreet and more difficult to detect by the
police ", notes a well-informed source, is developing in Europe: that of "
narcodivers
".
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These neoprene traffickers fix or hang the goods below large vessels.
The hull of these buildings allows the concealment of several tens of kilos of drugs, protected in boxes or waterproof bundles.
A way for them to transit more easily from beach to port or coast to coast.
According to our information, the French intelligence services are worried about a "
trivialization
" of this method, straight imported by the Colombian and Mexican cartels in Europe.
The practice is estimated to have increased significantly over the past three years and is believed to be undervalued.
It could, the secret services are alarmed, contribute on its own scale to strengthening the "white tsunami" which is affecting France, overwhelmed by cocaine trafficking.
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