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A shelf-stacker in a Lidl’s supermarket in Madrid found a brick of cocaine under a bunch of bananas on Saturday. The police were called and 25 more such cocaine bricks were found in banana boxes sent to other Lidl shops and worth, apparently, several million euros.
The fruit came from Ecuador and the Ivory Coast and is not the first time cocaine has been found in boxes of bananas.
What is surprising about the story is not that the drug smugglers appear to have made a mistake in failing to recover the cocaine before it was shipped to supermarkets, but that Spanish police last year seized more than 14 tons of cocaine, that had been smuggled into the country in stuffed animals, nappies, seafood and even a picture of the Sacred Heart.
Fourteen tons! And that is in just one country. The mind boggles as to the weight of cocaine that is actually shipped world-wide and, alas, handled by unscrupulous middlemen to be distributed to vulnerable drug addicts..
A shelf-stacker in a Lidl’s supermarket in Madrid found a brick of cocaine under a bunch of bananas on Saturday. The police were called and 25 more such cocaine bricks were found in banana boxes sent to other Lidl shops and worth, apparently, several million euros.
The fruit came from Ecuador and the Ivory Coast and is not the first time cocaine has been found in boxes of bananas.
What is surprising about the story is not that the drug smugglers appear to have made a mistake in failing to recover the cocaine before it was shipped to supermarkets, but that Spanish police last year seized more than 14 tons of cocaine, that had been smuggled into the country in stuffed animals, nappies, seafood and even a picture of the Sacred Heart.
Fourteen tons! And that is in just one country. The mind boggles as to the weight of cocaine that is actually shipped world-wide and, alas, handled by unscrupulous middlemen to be distributed to vulnerable drug addicts..
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