“They all worry us: “Mocro maffia” (Dutch-Moroccan organization), Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta and other Italian, Balkan, Russian, Colombian underworlds…, declared French general Jean-Philippe Lecouffe, deputy executive director of Europol in an interview with The Telegram. What surprises us is that we don’t see the Mexicans that much and we don’t see why they wouldn’t be there. We are looking for them. »
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According to his explanations, these criminal organizations smuggle drugs through Belgium and the Netherlands. “The main ports of arrival for cocaine in Europe are located in the north: Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg… In France, Le Havre is the main port, but there is an increase in traffic at the port of Marseille. Also in Balkan ports. In fact, traffickers always seek to diversify entries, and therefore try to pass wherever containers arrive. They test the sites which seem less controlled to them. But, for those, we are not on the same scale. »
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According to him, traffickers favor ports, where “the mass of flows is such – we are talking about millions of containers per year – that their cargoes have little risk of being checked. Tons of drugs go there. The senior official will recall that the record in one seizure must amount to 9 or 11 tons and will also note that the unit of account for the large criminal organizations is the ton. “Europol is working precisely on these networks,” he assured.