Maritime police in northwest France found nearly a ton of cocaine washed up on a beach on the English Channel on Feb. 26.
The drugs were found near the town of Reville on the Cotentin Peninsula, according to France’s maritime authority for the English Channel and North Sea.
The cocaine, weighing about 1,875 pounds (850 kilograms) in total, was found in two large packages linked by a rope, the authorities said on Feb. 28.
Police are trying to determine whether the drugs fell from a ship or were intentionally floated to the shore for traffickers to pick up.
Another report by AFP citing unnamed sources said more drugs were found washed up on the northern French coast on March 1….