Brussels, Belgium — Police in Belgium staged a vast nationwide operation against drug traffickers Tuesday, with the main focus on the port of Antwerp, a major hub for Europe’s cocaine trade.
More than 1,500 police conducted some 200 searches simultaneously from just before dawn in “one of the biggest operations ever organized on Belgian territory,” a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office told AFP.
A law enforcement official said they targeted “a sprawling criminal organization.”
“More than a dozen arrests” have so far been made, the official said, without giving a precise figure.
The operation was being steered by the federal prosecutor’s office and the Antwerp publ…
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