{"id":74856,"date":"2025-04-30T09:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74856"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:15:18","slug":"cocaine-corruption-and-bribes-the-german-port-under-siege-by-europes-criminal-drug-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/30\/cocaine-corruption-and-bribes-the-german-port-under-siege-by-europes-criminal-drug-gangs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocaine, corruption and bribes: the German port under siege by Europe\u2019s criminal drug gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1DSLnq.img?w=534&amp;h=320&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A container ship is moored at a terminal of the port in Hamburg. In 2021 police announced Europe\u2019s 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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Hamburg\u2019s 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.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/cocaine-corruption-and-bribes-the-german-port-under-siege-by-europe-s-criminal-drug-gangs\/ar-AA1DSNEt?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=a4c165ad95be46ce940f255d5a43593b&amp;ei=42\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In Hamburg\u2019s spring sunshine, 200,000-tonne cargo ships almost half a mile long, piled high with the same weight in shipping containers, are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cocaine-in-bag.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74857,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74856\/revisions\/74857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}