US EditionHow Drug Traffickers Enter Europe: Transshipments on the High Seas, Autonomous Submarines and Legal Mix
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The increase in cocaine trafficking to Europe, driven by high production in Latin America and growing demand in the EU, has led criminal networks to modify their methods of transport and camouflage. To circumvent police pressure and surveillance of large ports such as Antwerp (Belgium), Hamburg (Germany) or Rotterdam (Netherlands), they use semi-submersible ships. They also transport on the high seas drug shipments from one ship to another. And …
The criminal networks that supply cocaine to Europe are changing their methods to avoid police pressure: they avoid large ports, resort to transshipments on the high seas and deliveries to speedboats, employ semi-submersibles capable of crossing the Atlantic and “mix” the drug with legal materials to make it almost undetectable.
A total of 105 people have been arrested in Andalusia and the Canary Islands in the two phases of the ‘Black Shadow’ operation against drug trafficking.
Cocaine is transported to Europe in new ways and with almost perfect camouflage. Drug gangs have changed to new methods.
Operating at night from rivers in southern Spain, the northwestern province of Galicia and the Canary Islands, as well as from Portugal and Morocco, the speedboats sailed deep into the Atlantic, where they took over drugs from ships for transport and storage.
The police point out that the gang distributed the drugs in narco-lanchas departing from Guadalquivir and the coast of Andalusia and the Canary Islands.
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