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European ministers are meeting with South American counterparts today (7 May) in Hamburg, Germany, as Europe faces up to spiraling drug-related violence. Major European ports are clubbing together after the European Commission described a surge in cocaine imports as one of the most serious security threats facing the continent. “We must make our deep-sea ports so safe that they can no longer be gateways for tons of cocaine,” German interior minister Nancy Faeser said in a post on X ahead of the meeting, calling for greater international cooperation against cartels. The ministerial meeting incl...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden's administration is set to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, an official said Tuesday -- a historic shift that would bring federal policy more in line with public opinion. The US attorney general sent a proposal to the White House on Tuesday to "reclassify marijuana," Justice Department spokesperson Xochitl Hinojosa said in a statement. It comes after Biden became the first president to initiate a federal review into the matter, in 2022. The issue is seen as a potential vote winner for Biden as he faces Republican Donald Trump in a tough e...
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The total amount of cocaine discovered hidden among banana crates by supermarket workers in Germany this week was 223 kilograms, customs authorities said on Friday. Workers at seven supermarkets in Berlin and four other markets in surrounding region found the packets of cocaine hidden among bananas on Thursday. Christian Lanninger, spokesman for the Berlin-Brandenburg Customs Investigation Office, told the Märkische Allgemeine newspaper on Friday that the cocaine had a street value of around €10-15 million ($11-16 million) or more. Workers found a total of 119 kilograms at stores in Berlin, an...
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Mexico City (AFP) - Mexico is the "champion" of production of synthetic drugs including fentanyl, the head of the country's criminal investigation agency acknowledged Tuesday, at international talks aimed at fighting the problem. The blunt admission came as visiting US officials called for a "more agile" joint approach to combating drug trafficking by powerful Mexican cartels. "Mexico has been the champion of the production of methamphetamine, and now fentanyl," Felipe de Jesus Gallo said. That had been "the source of the greatest wealth and power" for Mexican criminal organizations, he added....
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More suspected cocaine has washed ashore in Hong Kong with police seizing seven packages, weighing roughly 15 kilograms, from a Sai Kung beach on Sunday. Officers responded to a report from a hiker at around 2.45 pm, police told HKFP on Monday. The estimated value of the packages, found around Nam She Wan, totalled HK$15 million, police added. The Narcotics Bureau is investigating the case. Earlier this month, officers discovered eight kilograms of suspected cocaine inside a plastic barrel on Lido Beach in Ting Kau. Investigators valued them at around HK$8 million. A week earlier, 19 blue parc...
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James Hetfield, frontman of Metallica, has shared images in tribute to the late Motorhead rocker Ian Kilmister – aka: Lemmy. How lovely. He just got a brand-new Ace Of Spades tattoo on his right middle finger – a reference to Motorhead’s biggest hit. Hetfield posted a picture on Metallica's Instagram account, telling the band's 11 million followers the tattoo is "a salute to my friend and inspiration Mr Lemmy Kilmister", adding: "Without him, there would be NO Metallica." Immensely sensible. The tat used ink containing ashes from the late Lemmy. Ah. "Black ink mixed with a pinch of his cremati...
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Police in western Germany conducted searches targeting 12 suspected drug dealers. A total of 14 properties on the border between the states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine Westphalia were investigated, a police spokeswoman said on Tuesday morning. Special forces were also deployed, she said. The proceedings concern suspected cocaine dealers aged between 19 and 50, who have been accused of over 400 offences since August 2022. The searches took place in a bar, a clubhouse and several private homes. According to the investigators, they confiscated a sports car, five slot machines, more than €21,0...
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Turkish police have seized the third largest haul of cocaine in the country’s history, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Thursday. Some 608 kilograms of cocaine, most of it in liquid form, were confiscated in an operation across three provinces, Yerlikaya posted on the social media platform X. Nearly 830 kilograms of precursor chemicals used to process the drug were also seized. Yerlikaya said the police operation targeted an international gang allegedly led by a Lebanese-Venezuelan national, who was among four foreign members of the “organized crime group" detained, along with nine...
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A man has been arrested after 129 kilograms of suspected ketamine with an estimated market value of around HK$71 million were intercepted at Hong Kong’s airport. Hong Kong Customs made the seizure on Tuesday after two consignments from Germany were selected for inspection. In one, which said it contained amber, “multiple nylon bags containing real amber and suspected ketamine, both wrapped in plastic bags, were found,” the department said in a statement on Thursday. “At the same time, Customs officers found 69 bottles of powder in the consignment declared as glitter, and it was discovered that...
Hong Kong Free Press
French police raided the national anti-drugs agency (Ofast) branch in the southern French city of Marseille as part of a corruption probe, the newspaper Le Parisien reported on Wednesday evening. The paper reported, citing sources, that the Inspectorate General of the National Police (IGPN) on April 4 raided the head office of the Ofast branch in Marseille, the leading criminal investigation department in the city responsible for tackling the largest drug networks. The raid was part of an investigation opened by the city's public prosecutor's office following a tip-off, the paper said. IGPN of...
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