Over 40 kilos of cocaine have been found in French supermarkets.
Staff at four stores belonging to the same chain in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region were shocked when they found the drugs hidden under pallets with bananas, reports The Guardian.
The police are now trying to investigate who the narcotics, believed to originate from Colombia, were actually intended for.
This is not the first time cocaine has been smuggled into Europe via fruit shipments from South America. In July, drug-sniffing dogs in Ecuador found 6,000 kilos of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment destined for Germany, writes The Guardian. In August, customs officials in Thessaloniki, Greece, discovered 93 kilos of cocaine on a freight ship carrying bananas, also from Ecuador.
