940.7 kg of cannabis resin seized from a sailboat; four held
A French Navy vessel boarded a Portuguese-flagged sailing ship in the Atlantic on 6 June 2025 and found 24 bales of cannabis resin weighing 940.7 kg. Four people were detained and taken to Fort-de-France, where the OFAST anti-narcotics office took over the investigation.
🇫🇷 International waters off the Atlantic coast of Guyana, vessel escorted to Fort-de-France, Martinique · France
A French Navy vessel intercepted a sailing ship and found 24 bales of cannabis
resin weighing 940.7 kg aboard.[1][2]Four people were detained after the
interception and handed to the judicial authorities for prosecution.[3]RCI
reported that those arrested were taken back to Fort-de-France, where the local
OFAST branch, France’s anti-narcotics office, was put in charge of the
investigation.[4]
The MAOC-N, a European maritime anti-narcotics centre, said the ship flew the
Portuguese flag.[5]The interception happened on Friday 6 June in the Atlantic
Ocean, French Antilles forces said, and the ship was escorted to Fort-de-France.[1][2]The French navy boarded under Article 17 of the UN drug-trafficking
convention, and tests on the cargo were positive for cannabis.[1][2]
Martinique La 1ère, which described the ship as a go-fast, said the operation
was run by the French forces in the Antilles with the OFAST and the legal
support of the Fort-de-France JIRS prosecutors.[3]The MAOC-N said the
interception took place in international waters off the coast of Guyana and that
intelligence came from several countries through its framework, with Spanish and
Portuguese authorities cooperating.[5]With this seizure, drugs intercepted by
the French Antilles forces in 2025 passed 14 tonnes, a figure covering all
narcotics, not cannabis alone.[1][2]
Photos and video
Photo captioned by the outlet as near a tonne of cannabis seized off Martinique, credited to Serge Charmoillaux, Groupe Image Méditerranée; the outlet does not name the vessel or place it was taken. Photo: Serge Charmoillaux / Groupe Image MéditerranéePhoto details
The outlet describes the intercepted ship as a go-fast in the Caribbean zone, while the agency statement and MAOC-N describe a Portuguese-flagged sailing vessel in the Atlantic off Guyana; the report uses the agency account.
Martinique La 1ère gives the night of 4 to 5 June as the operation's timing, the agency statement and MAOC-N give Friday 6 June; the report uses 6 June.
The sources give no coordinates beyond international Atlantic waters off Guyana, so the map point marks Fort-de-France, where the vessel and its crew were taken, not the interception site.
MAOC-N records two crew members handed over, while Martinique La 1ère and RCI report four people taken into custody; the report records four.
No nationality, age, identity, charges or court outcome for the detained people was published.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Martinique La 1ère: The operation belonged to Carib Royale, a French anti-trafficking campaign at sea.
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