The police seized the production equivalent of “1.1 million” cannabis plants, “the largest seizure of this substance, not only in Spain, but also internationally”.
Spanish police announced on Saturday that they had seized 32 tons of cannabis buds, or “largest seizure of this substance internationally“, at the end of an investigation which led to the arrest of twenty people. This vast operation, dubbed “Gardens» («gardensin French), has taken place in recent weeks in several cities in Spain, including Toledo (center) and Valencia (east), where the alleged traffickers stored most of the goods, said the Civil Guard.
She “ended with the seizure of 32 tons of marijuana buds“, equivalent to the production of “1.1 millionof cannabis plants, i.e. “the largest seizure of this substance, not only in Spain, but also internationally“, she insisted in a press release. According to the Civil Guard, the cannabis buds were vacuum-packed for shipment to different Spanish regions, but also to other European countries, “mainly Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium“.
In total, twenty people aged 20 to 59 – nine men and eleven women – were arrested during the operation. The organization to which they belongedcontrolled the entire drug production and distribution process“, specifies the Civil Guard. After being the gateway to hashish in Europe for decades, Spain has seen cannabis plantations multiply on its territory in recent years, attracting criminal organizations from all over the European continent.
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