German police reported that drugs weighing 95 kilograms and worth around 7 million euros (around 30 million złoty) were found in several cities in North Rhine-Westphalia. According to German Wellethe first to discover cocaine on September 10 were employees of two discount chains in Moenchengladbach.
Packages of cocaine in bananas. In several discount stores
On the same day, cocaine was also found in stores of the same chain in several other nearby cities: Duisburg, Krefeld, Viersen, Heinsberg and Neuss. “Investigators assume that the discount grocery store was not the correct recipient of the delivery and that the goods were delivered to it by mistake,” the police in Moenchengladbach said in a statement. However, the services did not say which specific discount chain was in question.
The cocaine arrived at the port of Antwerp and from there it went to Germany
Police believe the shipment came from South America and arrived at the Belgian port of Antwerp. From there it was transported to a discount chain distribution warehouse in Germany. Cocaine in bananas has also reached Poland. Recall that, for example, three years ago, there was a big news story about finding 160 kilograms of cocaine in bananas that were sent to several locations of a well-known grocery chain. The drugs were worth about PLN 30 million.
The record-breaking cocaine smuggling into Europe to date was the one foiled in the port of Hamburg. In mid-June this year, the Central Office for Organized Crime in Duesseldorf reported the seizure of a record amount of cocaine. A total of 35 tons of the drug, worth several billion euros, fell into the hands of the police.