A family holiday in northern France was disrupted earlier this week after their teenage son found a huge package of cocaine washed up on the shoreline.
The family were enjoying the last days of the summer break by going to the beach in Ambleteuse (Pas-de-Calais), when their son spotted something in the water, close to the shore.
He went over to investigate, and found a large package wrapped in netting.
The family initially believed it to be fishing equipment, but after pulling it out of the water thought it may have been a suitcase lost by migrants crossing the Channel to the UK.
They dragged the heavy package to the lifeguard post on the beach to inform the workers and work out what the mysterious box contained.
Upon opening the package, however, they found the reason for its hefty weight – 25 one-kilogram packets of ‘white powder’.
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