Arrests in Germany after €90 million drug haul seized in British port
A press spokesman for Hamburg customs presents a small part of a seized cocaine find at a media event in the port in 2022.Credit: Marcus Brandt/dpa
German police have detained six men suspected of drug smuggling, after 3,600 kilograms of cocaine were seized in Britain last week, a spokeswoman for police in the northern port of Hamburg said on Thursday.
The drugs, estimated to have a street worth of €90 million ($103.3 million) were discovered in the port of Southampton last Thursday hidden among bananas in a refrigerated container, she said.
The container, which remained on the vessel, was then shipped to Hamburg, where the suspects loaded it onto a lorry and transported it to a warehouse in the town of Winsen, south-east of Hamburg.
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