The Italian Finance Guard (border police) today found dozens of packages with a total of 2,000 kilos of cocaine floating in the sea off the Sicilian city of Catania (south), a cache that is equivalent to 400 million euros on the market. .
This is a "record" seizure, the Catania Finance Guard said in a statement.
The discovery occurred during a routine control of the eastern coast of Sicily, when the aircraft of the body identified from the air numerous packed white packages that floated in the sea united by a net.
The bundles also had a light signaling system to allow their location by eventual recipients, although the police arrived before deploying several ships.
Once seized, the packages have been examined in Catania and the authorities confirmed that they contained cocaine. Specifically, there were 70 bales with "almost" two thousand kilos of drugs.
The Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, congratulated the agents for this operation which, in his words, represents "one of the largest drug seizures" made in the country.
