Ireland 'a major route for cocaine smuggling' by cartels as country faces 'a tsunami of cocaine'
Irish Mirror
21 hrs ago
Michael O'Toole
Irish airspace and airports are being used to smuggle millions of euro worth of cocaine into Europe, a leading law enforcement agency has warned.
The annual report by Europol – the EU’s policing agency – says Ireland and Britain are amongst four main routes used by cocaine cartels to smuggle their drugs into Europe via air.
It had been previously thought that most of the cocaine in Europe was smuggled from Colombia and other south American countries to Europe via sea – but Europol’s serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment, or SOCTA, pinpoints air routes as a vital new supply pathway.