The carbon fibre vessel took three men and $150m of drugs from the Amazon rainforest to Spain.
I'm about to climb into the first "narco-sub" known to have brought cocaine from South America to Europe.After clambering on top, I lift up the wonky manhole cover and descend into the hull where three men survived for 27 long days and nights, as they voyaged across the Atlantic Ocean just under the surface of the crashing waves.The sunlight tries to creep in from faint cracks in the walls.
However, it's not a rotting relic of a bygone battle: it's a symbol of a secretly growing phenomenon."For more than 20 years traffickers have been using submarines to reach Africa and Europe, but these two are the first we've seized," explains Antonio Martinez Duarte, Chief Commissioner of the Narco Brigade in the Spanish National Police.For more than 20 years traffickers have been using submarines...
"This is a very important operation," says Chief Commissioner Duarte. "It's the first time in Europe that we found as much as one and a half tonnes of base cocaine paste." On a table at the far end of the room are dozens of brown parcels, each the size of a house brick, emblazoned with a Superman logo - the symbol chosen by the traffickers who no doubt felt a sense of invincibility.An officer leans over and whispers that importers pay €27-32,000 for each parcel. They then at least double their money when they sell it on the streets.
One place they're witnessing first hand the surge in supply of the drug is at the port of Antwerp in Belgium.In 2022 they seized a record 110 tonnes of cocaine - so much that they didn't have enough incinerators to destroy it fast enough.
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