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Customs officials in mainland France are grappling with cocaine being smuggled in from the overseas department of French Guiana. At Paris's Orly airport, as many as one in four passengers on flights from French Guiana's capital Cayenne try to smuggle in drugs in exchange for cash. Many locals are driven to drug trafficking because it's one of the few avenues open to them to make a decent wage. But in doing so, they risk their health, their lives and their freedom. Our France 2 colleagues report, with FRANCE 24's Camille Nedelec.
In Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana's second-largest city, one in three residents is foreign and often there illegally. To reach this South American region of overseas France, many illegal immigrants arrive from neighbouring Surinam by crossing the River Maroni. Shanty towns are now swelling, infrastructure is inadequate, and maternity units are overcrowded. Meanwhile, drug traffickers are thriving and are recruiting thousands of unemployed young people to smuggle cocaine over to Paris.
Over 12,000 containers pass through the port of Algeciras, Spain, every day. This massive harbor is also Europe's hotspot in drug trafficking, with thousands of seizures of hash, cannabis and cocaine every year.
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