French customs seized 1.1 tons of cocaine.

French customs officials said on the 3rd that they seized about 1.1 tons of cocaine on a truck carrying potting soil. According to Agence France-Presse quoting French customs officials, staff at a toll booth on a highway in southern Lyon recently intercepted a truck traveling from Portugal to the Netherlands. They found that some of the 26 large bags of potting soil in the truck were suspicious.