More than two tons of cocaine seized in a container at the port of Le Havre

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Two men were indicted Friday January 3, 2025 after the discovery, Monday, December 30, 2024, of more than two tons of cocaine hidden in a container at the port of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), announces, in a press release, the Paris prosecutor's office.

The two defendants are being prosecuted in particular as heads ofimportation of narcotics in an organized gang, transport, detention, acquisition, offer or transfer, of participation in a criminal association andsmugglingdetails Laure Beccuau, the Paris public prosecutor, in her press release.

They were placed in pre-trial detention by the judge of freedoms and detention.

A penalty of 30 years of criminal imprisonment

According to the prosecution, they are a 22-year-old dockworker and a 41-year-old truck driver. Both face up to 30 years in prison.

This update was the result of joint work between the research section of the Rouen gendarmerie and theAnti-narcotics Office (OFAST).

Under the authority of Le Havre parquetwhich relinquished in favor of the national jurisdiction to combat organized crime (Junalco) from the arrest of the protagonists, the agents shed light on the particular operating mode used, namely depositing a “clone container” in the unloading area.

“It is a container witha marking identical to a container already referenced in the cargo of a ship to be unloaded,” explains the prosecutor.

A retail value of more than 130 million euros

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In this case, the drugs seized have an estimated retail value of more than 130 million euros. Investigations continue now under the direction of the investigating judges, “with the objectives of establishing the circumstances of the commission of the facts and identifying all of the co-authors and accomplices”, says Laure Beccuau.

The representative of the public prosecutor concludes: “This procedure confirms that, for several years, the port of Le Havre has become theone of the main entry points for cocaine on the national territory metropolitan area for transnational criminal organizations. »

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