Drug smugglers are a creative bunch. They've used anything from carving
Jesus statues out of cocaine to using puppies
as drug mules and building
their own submarines. Now, French and Dutch police have caught a smuggling
ring that used a technique "worthy of James Bond":
Three French divers were arrested earlier this month as they prepared
to dive under a cargo boat in Rotterdam which had 101kg of pure cocaine
stuffed into a missile-shaped container attached to its hull. [...]
Narcotics agents first got wind of the scheme last June when bemused
port police fished four divers — complete with underwater propulsion
vehicle - out of inky-black waters near Fos-sur-Mer, a major oil port
on France’s Mediterranean coast, in the middle of the night.
“Our initial reaction was: are they shooting a scene from an
action movie?,” said Philippe Frizon, head of Nice judicial police.
The divers were released, but police soon realised these were no ordinary
frogmen.
Henry Samuel of The Telegraph has the story:
Here.
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