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Germany's biggest ever cocaine haul seized

Germany's biggest ever cocaine haul seized
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Customs officials in Germany have put on display the country’s biggest ever cocaine haul.

Customs officials in Germany have put on display the country’s biggest ever cocaine haul.

More than 700 kilos of the class A drug, with a purity of 80 percent, were seized.

The cocaine – smuggled from the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao – is said to have been hidden under lead in a shipping container.

Authorities in the Netherlands reportedly tipped off their German colleagues after criminals searching for the haul kidnapped two people, one of whom later escaped.

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