Posted on 11/21/2022 2:20:12 PM PST by DFG
Belgium has seized so much cocaine from smugglers operating through the port of Antwerp that it needs more incinerator space to destroy it, officials said Monday.
The massive police stash has been given the nickname the 'cocaine-berg,' with more than 100 tonnes on track to be amassed by the end of the year.
Authorities are concerned that depots used to store the drugs could become targets for robberies by powerful gangs seeking to recover their lucrative cargoes.
There's a problem with incinerator capacity,' Belgian customs service spokesman Francis Adyns told AFP, confirming reports in the local press promising that 'a structural solution is on the way.'
Officials in the Flanders regional government said a plan could be announced as soon as Tuesday.
Belgium's latest problem stems from the astronomical quantities of cocaine from Latin America which are intercepted in Antwerp, Europe's main port of entry for the illegal trade.
According to local press reports, suspected gang members have been seen using drones to scout around customs depots housing seized cocaine worth millions of euros.
Authorities are working quickly to destroy the seizures but, Adyns said, to incinerate cocaine 'there are environmental standards to be met.'
Antwerp - spread over 47 square miles - has emerged as the epicentre of Europe’s trade in cocaine, partly because it has long been a gateway port for goods imported into Europe from South America.
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>> I’ve got just the incinerator for that. It may be small but it’s . . . mighty.
The Nostril 5000 ?
“I have an idea. Me, and all the sorority girls of Florida, Alabama, and Arizona have a one month long party.”
Just for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J7IrPVLc4U
"Captain! I've never seen the fish jump like that before!"
"Me neither. Shut up and keep casting!"
Luckily nothing bad ever happened with Richard, cocaine, and fire…
Perfect!
Well, there’s that and maybe just a bonfire? Must be a Eurotrash thing if a fire is too complicated? And it never occurs to these geniuses that just spraying a little diesel on it would take it off the market. Wouldn’t want to ruin the deputy’s share, I guess?
I agree.
“I have an idea.
Me, and all the sorority girls of Florida, Alabama, and Arizona have a one month long party.”
Trips like this always require a chaperone, and after reading your post, my 6’2”, 240lb ass is identifying as a “house mother”. ;)
I hate when that happens.
Ok, now there’s three of us, and a thousand chicks.
LMAO....I like the ratio!
Must blow that sh_____ up into all four directions
Said no one ever in Miami.
You’ve got one too? Call me old fashioned, but I don’t care for the new electric blue-tooth enabled ones they advertise now.
Retreating Germans left behind alcohol stockpiles hoping the Russians would become too drunk to fight effectively.
It didn't quite work out as planned.
Send it to the British Parliament.
Belgium should sell the cocaine to Mexican drug lords. Then it can be sold in USA to all the cocaine addicts here.
Then airdrop fentanyl.
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