La Direction Générale de la Sûreté Nationale (DGSN) notes that the drugs were seized and an investigation has kicked off.
In a translated tweet Saturday, DGSN reports that it discovered nine tonnes and 177 kilograms of chira, what locals call hashish, “in a qualitative operation to fight international trafficking in drugs and psychotropes (psychotropic drugs).” The joint operation involving the National Security Agency and the General Directorate of National Land Monitoring was in field coordination with gendarmes, adds another tweet.
“Morocco remains the country most reported by Member States as the source of cannabis resin, followed by Afghanistan and, to a lesser extent, Lebanon, India and Pakistan,” notes a 2017 report from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.
The artwork, which is on display in Greenwich, overlooking London’s skyscrapers, was commissioned by NOW TV to mark the launch of ZeroZeroZero, a drug-trafficking mini-series.
Based on the book of the same name by Roberto Saviano, the series - which stars Gabriel Byrne - follows the journey, cost, and devastation of transporting a large shipment of cocaine from Mexico to Europe.
The 7 x 5 metre artwork shines a sobering spotlight on the UK and European consumption rates of cocaine.
It features the most popular shipping routes to Europe and the UK from South America, the Caribbean, West Africa and Brazil with seven cargo ships illustrating how 77 per cent of cocaine is carried by sea.
News by Dan Hall, The Sun 26th Jan 2021 8:33 PM In the dead of night, backpackers carrying rifles and grenades meet up in the Peruvian jungle for the beginning of a 5000km journey that could cost them their lives. Between them, the young men are carrying 30kg of cocaine paste - which will eventually be worth $A973,000 by the time it reaches users. The dark and dangerous hike is the very first step in a supply chain that will see their paste smuggled to all corners of the world, from Miami to Melbourne. And even at this stage, the traffickers are risking their lives transporting their illicit cargo - which some start doing when they re just 15.