Reville: 850kg of cocaine washes up onshore in town on Cotentin Peninsula in northwestern France

Almost a tonne of cocaine has washed up on a French beach, with police officers working to identify the origin of the huge haul of drugs.

Two large packages, weighing a total of 850kg, were found attached together by a rope on the shore of the town of Reville in northwestern France. Authorities have said that while packages containing drugs have washed up on shore before, a package of this size was extremely unusual.

Officers are currently working to establish whether the packages fell from a ship or whether they were dropped intentionally for traffickers to pick up off of the beach. It comes amid a surge in cocaine supplies in Europe, with an increase in drug violence also recorded across the continent.

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