2023-11-28 22:08:19
The Senegalese army seized nearly 3 tonnes of cocaine from a ship boarded off the coast of Senegal with a crew of ten people including a Senegalese, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned from the Senegalese navy, Tuesday November 28 .
A patrolman “seized nearly 3 tons of pure cocaine aboard a ship intercepted 150 kilometers offshore” of Dakar, announced the navy on X. The seized cargo contains precisely 2,975 tonnes of cocaine, a senior Senegalese military official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The ship was intercepted during the night from Sunday to Monday, the Senegalese army said in a previous statement sent to the press agency on Tuesday. He was then escorted to a naval base in Dakar where he arrived on Tuesday to “identification and counting of seized products”.
In January, more than 800 kilos were seized
The crew includes a Senegalese and “the investigation is ongoing”, told AFP a navy official who did not specify the nationality of the other people who were on board the ship and their origin. He was intercepted “in international waters”he added.
Long considered a simple transit zone for drugs produced in Latin America heading to Europe, West and Central Africa has also become a region of high consumption, according to the United Nations Office against Drug Abuse. drugs and crime.
More than 800 kilos of cocaine were seized in January from a ship off the coast of Dakar by the Senegalese navy. Senegalese customs also announced in October 2022 the seizure of 300 kilos of cocaine, worth nearly 37 million euros, in a refrigerated truck coming from neighboring Mali.
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