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[-] autotldr 0 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


It seemed it would be a routine police operation after a tipoff came in regarding a vessel ferrying 2.3 tonnes of cocaine from South America to Spain.

But what came next could have been plucked out of a Hollywood blockbuster, as Spanish police found themselves negotiating for hours on the high seas with an alleged armed smuggler who claimed to have shot one of his compatriots, thrown him overboard and taken the rest hostage.

Spanish authorities said on Wednesday that nine people were arrested during the high-stakes operation, which took place in November but was kept under wraps until the investigation was completed.

It was launched after police caught wind of a cocaine shipment that was allegedly making its way across the Atlantic – in what the ministry described as a “mothership” named Sea Paradise – and was to be transferred to a smaller vessel heading to the Canary Islands.

It continued: “Furthermore, in order to take control of the boat, the kidnapper would have shot one of the men and later thrown his body into the sea.”

What followed was an hours-long negotiation on the high seas, said the ministry, “until they finally managed to get the kidnapper to drop his weapon and surrender to authorities”.


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