“Dozens of tons of cocaine have been taken out of circulation,” German authorities said. The drugs were first uncovered in Hamburg last year.

Investigators in Germany have discovered a record amount of cocaine worth several billion euros, authorities reported on Friday.

“Dozens of tons of cocaine worth several billion euros have been taken out of circulation,” the Baden-Württemberg State Office of Criminal Investigation and the Customs Investigation Office in Stuttgart, as well as the Düsseldorf public prosecutor’s office announced.

The huge quantity of drugs was first discovered in the port of Hamburg last year, and, according to the German news agency DPA, originated in South America.

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    6 months ago

    “Dozens of tons of cocaine worth several billion euros have been taken out of circulation,”

    Which achieves nothing.

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      6 months ago

      Legitimately, everything is minor, there is just so much of it flowing.

      I am in a small town and hundreds of thousands worth ws seized and a few arrests but there was no blip in supply, change in price nothing.