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Cocaine, corruption and bribes: the German port under siege by Europe’s criminal drug gangs

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A container ship is moored at a terminal of the port in Hamburg. In 2021 police announced Europe’s biggest ever seizure of cocaine at the port: 16 tonnes stashed in 1,700 wall-putty tins shipped from Paraguay. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images

In Hamburg’s spring sunshine, 200,000-tonne cargo ships almost half a mile long, piled high with the same weight in shipping containers, are docked quayside along the Elbe River.  Read More

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