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一项旨在打击拉丁美洲至欧洲毒品贩运路线的为期一周的行动成功捣毁了执法部门所称的大西洋上的“主要可卡因高速路”。
欧盟执法机构欧洲刑警组织表示，在4月13日至26日的行动期间，执法人员共查获超过12吨可卡因和约9.5公吨大麻脂，截获8艘船只，总共逮捕54人。
此次行动由多国执法部门参与，由欧洲刑警组织协调。该机构表示，行动的具体目标是打击那些通过“复杂的海上转运”将可卡因从拉丁美洲部分地区运往欧洲的贩毒网络——这类转运方式避开主要港口，以躲避执法部门的侦测。
为了定位海上进行秘密转运的船只，执法人员被部署到大西洋沿岸多个地点，重点关注西班牙加那利群岛和葡萄牙亚速尔群岛之间的海域。
欧洲刑警组织称，在为期两周的行动中，他们的任务是侦测、追踪并截获涉嫌贩毒的船只。今年早些时候，该机构曾预警贩毒网络正在改变跨大西洋可卡因贩运方式，而此次行动的结果也证实了该机构此前的判断。
“此次行动印证了欧洲刑警组织今年早些时候发现的动向：犯罪团伙越来越多地通过离岸转运来减少在主要港口暴露的风险，”该机构补充说，跨大西洋的毒品运输“如今正以多阶段方式进行”。
欧洲刑警组织表示，贩毒团伙如今愈发频繁地使用这种被称为“碎片化海上航线”的零散式毒品转运方式，本质上是将风险分摊给所有涉案人员。
根据该机构的说法，此次行动中收集到的情报帮助执法人员更好地了解了不断演变的贩毒网络的运作方式，尤其是在加那利群岛和亚速尔群岛之间的海域——这片区域因贩毒活动频发，被他们称为“可卡因高速路”。
欧洲刑警组织行动副执行主任让-菲利普·勒库夫在一份声明中表示：“此次行动表明，犯罪团伙正变得越来越灵活，国际关联性也越来越强。但我们的应对措施也在快速升级。在为期两周的行动中，执法部门对所谓的可卡因高速路造成了沉重打击。”
勒库夫表示，欧洲刑警组织将利用此次获取的新情报“进一步完善现有情报，以帮助识别并摧毁这些跨大西洋贩毒行动背后的犯罪网络”。
International operation disrupts “cocaine highway” across the Atlantic Ocean
May 10, 2026 / 1:06 PM EDT / CBS News
A weekslong operation to thwart drug trafficking routes from Latin America to Europe has successfully disrupted what authorities called “a major cocaine highway” in the Atlantic Ocean.
Over 12 tons of cocaine and about 9.5 metric tons of hashish were seized over the course of the operation, which lasted from April 13 to April 26, said Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency. Eight vessels were intercepted and 54 people were arrested overall.
The mission involved international law enforcement bureaus and was coordinated by Europol. The agency said it aimed to specifically target drug trafficking networks moving cocaine from parts of Latin America to Europe through “complex at-sea transfers,” conceived to evade detection by avoiding major ports.
In order to locate the boats carrying out these covert transfers at sea, law enforcement agents were deployed to various sites across the Atlantic, focusing on an area between Spain’s Canary Islands and Portugal’s Azores.
They were tasked with detecting, tracking and intercepting vessels suspected of drug trafficking during the two-week operation, according to Europol. After the agency warned earlier this year that trafficking networks were changing how they moved cocaine across the Atlantic, it said the results of its latest mission essentially reinforced what it already beleived to be true.
“The recent operation demonstrates the patterns Europol had identified earlier this year: criminal networks are increasingly moving cocaine offshore to reduce exposure to law enforcement at major ports,” the agency said, adding that shipments across the Atlantic “are now moved in multiple stages.”
Called “fragmented maritime routes,” the piecemeal drug transfers that authorities say traffickers are using more often essentially “fragment” the risks to all those involved, said Europol.
According to the agency, the intelligence gathered during the recent operation helped authorities gain a better understanding of how the evolving networks work — particularly in the section of ocean between the Canary islands and the Azores known to them as the “cocaine highway” because of the frequent trafficking activity there.
“Criminal networks are becoming increasingly flexible, and internationally connected. But our response is evolving fast too,” said Jean-Philippe Lecouffe, Europol’s deputy executive director of operations, in a statement. “Over a two-week operational period, law enforcement dealt a significant blow to what is known as the cocaine highway.”
Lecouffe said Europol will use the new intelligence “to build on the intelligence gathered to help identify and dismantle the criminal networks behind these trans-Atlantic operations.”
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