• Pour l’approvisionnement transatlantique de cocaïne, c’est #business_as_usual

    Europe flooded with cocaine despite coronavirus trade disruptions - Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-drugs-idUSKBN22C1TY


    FILE PHOTO : A Brazilian custom agent uses a sniffer dog to inspect a container going to Europe for smuggled drugs at the Port of Santos in Santos, Brazil September 24, 2019.
    REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

    Latin American drug lords have sent bumper shipments of cocaine to Europe in recent weeks, including one in a cargo of squid, even though the coronavirus epidemic has stifled legitimate transatlantic trade, senior anti-narcotics officials say.

    The illegal drugs industry has been disrupted by the virus, with international supply chains busted and millions of customers on lockdown.

    But drug kingpins have risen to the challenge, packing huge loads of cocaine into the fewer container ships and commercial airplanes in circulation in a sign they were ready to take higher risks to deliver their wares.

    Based on seizures of bigger-than-usual shipments of cocaine, it would be fair to say that Europe was flooded with cocaine ahead of lockdowns,” Bob Van Den Berghe, senior law enforcement officer at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), told Reuters.

    This trend has continued despite many European countries - including major user markets such as Britain and Spain - severely restricting their populations’ movements.

    The global pandemic, at this moment in time, has not had an effect on maritime drug trafficking. It’s business as usual,” said Michael O’Sullivan, head of the EU-funded Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre which coordinates interdictions at sea.

    • A Paris, le trafic de drogues semble bien se porter (Mercedes vitres teintées qui avait l’air très attendue en haut de Belleville il y a quelques jours) signe qu’il y a des commerces qui perdurent pendant le confinement. Vu les conditions drastiques de criculation, on peut conclure que cela se fait avec l’assentiment des pouvoirs publics.
      Remarque qu’abreuver de merdes toxiques les gamins des quartiers pauvres et les laisser se foutre sur la gueule a toujours été un outil pour les tenir en laisse.

    • Les trends sont nettement à la baisse depuis deux semaines, tout est renvoyé online et les prix stratosphériques. Evolution prévisible un peu de réassort la semaine prochaine, la clientèle va aussi chercher un peu ailleurs. Tendance haussière côté prix sur le moyen terme :-)