The French Navy takes over 9.6 tons of cocaine from the fishing bar on the coast of Western Africa

The French Navy has seized almost 10 tons of cocaine worth more than $ 600 million of a fishing vessel off the western African coast, French authorities said Thursday.

The seizure of two ships in the Navy followed a warning of the anti -drug and maritime intelligence authorities and the British police, authorities said in the maritime region of the Atlantic of the Northwest of France.

The operation was part of the Naval Corymbe mission of France, which has been deployed in the Gulf of Guinea since 1990 to guarantee security in an area where piracy is quite common.

“In total, 9.6 tons of cocaine were seized with a market value of almost 519 million euros ($ 609 million) of a boat,” said the Atlantic maritime prefecture, and added that the ship was not registered in any country.

The authorities published images of the operation, which show a military and official naval ship and helicopter that download packages from alleged drugs.

At the end of August, the French Navy had already seized almost six tons of cocaine off the coast of Western Africa.

The French authorities have intercepted 54.1 tons of drugs at sea since the beginning of 2025, the Navy said in a publication on social networks on Thursday.

Cocaine has been found in fishing ships around the world in recent months. Earl this year, the United States Coast Guard seized 10,000 pounds of cocaine From a fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean. That tour was worth an estimated $ 74 million. Last December, the police seized 2.3 tons of cocaine and arrested 13 people in raids after the fishing boat of the suspects broke on the coast of Australia.

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