On 4 May, Spanish police said that it had intercepted a freighter in international waters off Spain’s Canary Islands on 1 May carrying between 30,000 and 45,000 kg of cocaine. This is believed to be Spain’s largest known seizure of cocaine in international waters. The vessel had travelled from Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown and was on its way to Benghazi in Libya. While the boat was headed to Libya, AFP reported that the pattern of previous operations suggests that it was due to offload the drugs onto smaller vessels for distribution in Europe.
