Massive Cannabis Shipment Washes Ashore in Gibraltar After Boat Rescue

Very early on the morning of February 2, a drifting boat off Gibraltar sent out an SOS that was intercepted by the Spanish coast guard. They go to the scene and manage to rescue three people, who are immediately taken to a hospital in Algeciras.

The boat, on the other hand, drifts towards Camp Bay, a small rocky beach in Gibraltar. This resulted in the beach being littered with cannabis crates in the early morning. The police have so far collected 85, and no doubt more in the coming days.

These events take place as Spain had just, at the end of January, boasted of having dismantled a large drug trafficking and smuggling network from Morocco, through the Gibraltar coast, and arrested more than fifty people (in southern Spain and even in Ceuta) in a highly publicized large-scale operation called Lupita. This has apparently not deterred the traffickers or disrupted their schedules.