Why did the French military dump tonnes of cocaine into the sea? | The World | ABC NEWS

Описание: The French military has released video of it intercepting a ship carrying five tonnes of cocaine near French Polynesia. The haul is thought to be worth more than $1 billion and bound for Australia, but was dumped into the sea before the ship's crew were allowed to sail away. The President of French Polynesia has told the ABC that overcrowded prisons meant they couldn't prosecute the crew. Steve Symon is Chair of New Zealand's Ministerial Advisory Group on Transnational, Serious, Organised Crime, and said the surge in larger shipments of drugs through the Pacific is proving hard for Pacific nations to address.

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