French police have seized a massive haul of heroin worth millions of euros, hidden in a lorry on its way from Turkey to the UK. Customs officials found more than 305kg of the drugs with a street value of 12m euros ($14.3m; £8.2m), when they searched the vehicle at Dunkirk.
A spokesman said it was the biggest haul seized in France since 1972. A 32-year-old Turkish man, who said the drugs had been planted in his lorry without him knowing, was arrested.
The drugs - white heroin, which is more expensive than brown heroin - had been hidden in sports bags. "This latest haul on its own represents more than three-quarters of the total quantity of heroin normally seized by customs in a year," customs officials said in a statement.
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