Peru police seize cocaine marked with Nazi swastikas headed for Belgium

By Reuters: Dozens of packages of cocaine marked with Nazi swastikas along with the determine “Hitler” have been seized at a port in northern Peru, from the place would have been shipped to Belgium, police talked about on Friday.

Police talked about it was investigating whether or not or not there have been hyperlinks to Nazi groups, saying there have been no well-known groups in Peru and that it was doable the picture was solely getting used as a mode.

Drugs are generally acknowledged with a emblem representing the group which makes or strikes the product.

The 50 “bricks” of cocaine, weighting some 58 kilos and worth $3 million have been discovered by anti-drug brokers inside a refrigerated container throughout the port of Paita, Police Colonel Luis Bolanos knowledgeable reporters.

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Peru and Colombia are crucial producers of coca leaf and cocaine on the planet, according to the United Nations. Last 12 months alone, Peruvian authorities seized larger than 86 tonnes of medicine and illicit substances, along with 28 tonnes of cocaine.

After being shipped to a Belgian port, Bolanos talked about the medicine would have been distributed all through Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Spain.

After World War II, a whole lot of high-ranking Nazi officers sought refuge in South America, whereas in Europe, captured leaders stood trial for crimes in opposition to humanity.

Various fringe neo-Nazi groups have since emerged all through Europe, along with in Belgium.

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