2.4 tons of cocaine seized from fishing boat in Atlantic Ocean after tip from customs department

A helicopter from a surveillance frigate landed a team on the fishing boat about 1,500 kilometers northeast of Martinique.

The French navy has seized 2.4 tons of cocaine from a Venezuelan fishing boat in the Atlantic, authorities said Monday.Acting on a tip from the customs department, a helicopter from the surveillance frigate Ventose landed a team on the fishing boat about 1,500 kilometers northeast of the Caribbean island of Martinique, France 's Caribbean Armed Services department said. The boat, the crew and the cocaine were handed over to Venezuelan authorities, the department said in a Facebook post.

The military department said it had now seized more than 12 tons of narcotics this year. The Caribbean is taking on growing importance in the trafficking of cocaine from South America to Europe and North America.The 22.7 tons of cocaine intercepted in the region in 2022 was more than five times the figure of a decade earlier.International drug traffickers routinely use different kinds of boats to move narcotics.

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