On Monday, July 4, 2022, Spanish police announced that they had seized three submarines capable of transporting large quantities of drugs from Morocco to Spain and had dismantled a gang suspected of making them.
Officers seized three unmanned submarines and arrested eight people in raids in Barcelona and the southern Spanish provinces of Malaga and Cadiz, police said in a statement.
In this statement, it is stated that according to what was published by the “France 24” website, this is the first time that submarines are equipped for drug trafficking in the world.
Police believe the gang built the unmanned submarines to “carry large cargo” for use by other criminal organizations.
“These devices could allow drug traffickers to transport large quantities of drugs remotely through the Strait of Gibraltar,” it said.
Each is equipped with 12 engines and has a range of up to 30 km, easily enough to manage the underwater crossings of the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Spain from Morocco, which is only 15 km long.
The statement went on to say that he was supposed to deliver the three drivers to a French drug gang “to transport large quantities of cocaine.”
Source: Lebanon Debate
