52 tonnes of hashish seized in a Córdoba warehouse, a European record
Spanish police seized 52 tonnes of hashish packed in 1,700 parcels in an industrial workshop on a Córdoba trading estate and arrested three men, in what police called the largest hashish seizure in Spain and in Europe.
Spanish police found 52 tonnes of hashish in an industrial workshop on a trading estate in Córdoba and arrested three Spanish men.[1]The drug was packed in 1,700 parcels weighing 30 kilos each, with an estimated street value of 80 million euros.[1]Police called it the biggest hashish seizure ever made in Spain and a European record.[1][2]
How the raid happened
The police acted on the account of a lorry driver who had arrived at the premises to return a rented forklift truck and found himself bound and gagged, with two other men held the same way and armed men searching the store for the drug.[1]When officers reached the building, its main door was blocked from the inside with concrete blocks; once inside, they found the parcels.[1]The Gazette notes its account is reconstructed from a Spanish original it describes as sketchy.[1]
The same spring brought another supersized find: 32 tonnes of hashish in a truck carrying melons from Morocco.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The raid's exact date is not given; 6 May 2013 is the Monday of the police announcement.
A later roundup recalls the haul as an April seizure while contemporary reports date the announcement to early May; this report uses the announcement date.
The roundup describes the 32-tonne melon-truck find as coming days after this record, while the contemporary Gazette treats this bust as breaking a record set two days earlier.
The 32-tonne melon-truck find days earlier was a separate event, mentioned here only as context; it would need its own report.
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