エクアドル：コカイン6トン摘発

　バナナのコンテナに隠されているのをわんこたちが発見。

BBC Six tonnes of cocaine found in banana shipment　3 days ago
By Vanessa Buschschlüter

　5630個もの包みに分けられていたそうで、押収物の陳列はもう一面の…マットレスか何かに見えるなこれ。

「Sniffer dogs in Ecuador have found 6.23 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment, police say.

The dogs alerted their handlers, who seized 5,630 parcels filled with a white substance that later tested positive for cocaine.

The shipment was destined for Germany, officials said, and would have been worth $224m (£173m) had it reached its destination.」

　最終目的地はドイツ。…麻薬汚染が激しいようですわね。今後、ドイツが政治的・経済的地位を維持し続けることができるかどうか。

「Ecuador has become a major transit country for cocaine produced in neighbouring Peru and Colombia, with transnational criminal gangs using Ecuador's ports to ship the drug to Europe and the US.

Last year, Ecuadorean security forces seized more than 200 tonnes of drugs, most of it cocaine. Only the US and Colombia seized more drugs in 2023.」

　エクアドルは積み替え基地と言ったところ。昨年は合計200トン以上を押収したのだという。

「In January, officers found the largest stash ever to be seized in Ecuador - 22 tonnes of cocaine - buried in a pig farm.」

　1月には豚農場に埋設された22トン。…治安崩壊してねぇかこれ。まあそんなわけでヤクザ屋さんたちも跋扈しており、どないもこないもない。