How Brit holiday destination La Linea has become drugs gateway to Europe with gangsters smuggling coke & weed on boatsFIRING gunshots into the air, police officers swarmed on a boat full of drug traffickers as they raced towards the beach for a drop off in the dead of night. It sounds like something you’d see in a Mexican cartel movie, but it was actually happening in a popular British holiday destination in Spain – known as the drugs gateway to Europe. The drugs wars resulted in tragedy in June 2017 when Spanish police officer Victor Sanchez was killed on duty. The documentary features footage throughout of drugs boats loaded full of packages as they speed past police boats and empty beaches. “Every day or night until last year, approximately 10 or 12 inflatable boats would arrive carrying three tonnes of hashish each.
Source: The North Africa Journal September 12, 2020 15:22 UTC