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Syrian Security Forces Conduct Raids Against Assad Regime Remnants And Drug Dealers In Aleppo
In Aleppo, Syria, on September 29, 2025, members of the Syrian security forces carry out raids targeting hideouts of Assad regime remnants and drug traffickers in one of the city's neighborhoods as part of a broader campaign to enhance stability and combat organized crime. (Photo by Mohammad Daher/NurPhoto) -
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Syrian Security Forces Conduct Raids Against Assad Regime Remnants And Drug Dealers In Aleppo
In Aleppo, Syria, on September 29, 2025, members of the Syrian security forces carry out raids targeting hideouts of Assad regime remnants and drug traffickers in one of the city's neighborhoods as part of a broader campaign to enhance stability and combat organized crime. (Photo by Mohammad Daher/NurPhoto) -
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Syrian Security Forces Conduct Raids Against Assad Regime Remnants And Drug Dealers In Aleppo
In Aleppo, Syria, on September 29, 2025, members of the Syrian security forces carry out raids targeting hideouts of Assad regime remnants and drug traffickers in one of the city's neighborhoods as part of a broader campaign to enhance stability and combat organized crime. (Photo by Mohammad Daher/NurPhoto) -
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Syrian Security Forces Conduct Raids Against Assad Regime Remnants And Drug Dealers In Aleppo
In Aleppo, Syria, on September 29, 2025, members of the Syrian security forces carry out raids targeting hideouts of Assad regime remnants and drug traffickers in one of the city's neighborhoods as part of a broader campaign to enhance stability and combat organized crime. (Photo by Mohammad Daher/NurPhoto) -
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Syrian Security Forces Conduct Raids Against Assad Regime Remnants And Drug Dealers In Aleppo
In Aleppo, Syria, on September 29, 2025, members of the Syrian security forces carry out raids targeting hideouts of Assad regime remnants and drug traffickers in one of the city's neighborhoods as part of a broader campaign to enhance stability and combat organized crime. (Photo by Mohammad Daher/NurPhoto) -
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Syrian Security Forces Conduct Raids Against Assad Regime Remnants And Drug Dealers In Aleppo
In Aleppo, Syria, on September 29, 2025, members of the Syrian security forces carry out raids targeting hideouts of Assad regime remnants and drug traffickers in one of the city's neighborhoods as part of a broader campaign to enhance stability and combat organized crime. (Photo by Mohammad Daher/NurPhoto) -
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
Federal police chief Casarin enters a car parked in front of the seized “narco-submarine” at a navy base in Belém, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
The carcass of a seized “narco-submarine” at a navy base in Belém, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
The carcass of a seized “narco-submarine” at a navy base in Belém, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
Federal police chief Fernando Schwengber Casarin in front of the confiscated semi-submersible vessel at a navy base in Belém, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
Interior detail of the cabin of the seized “narco-submarine”, which served both as control room and sleeping quarters for up to 6 persons in just a few square metres, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
Detail of a hand mark inside the cargo hold of the seized “narco-submarine”, believed to belong to those who built it, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
Cargo hold of the seized “narco-submarine” where cocaine would have been stored, including a refrigerator and air conditioner, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
Journalist Tom Phillips enter the confiscated “narco-submarine” during an inspection at a navy base in Belém, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
Cramped sleeping space inside the seized “narco-submarine”, where up to six crew members would have shared bunks barely 5ft long, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
View from inside the cockpit of the seized “narco-submarine”, showing the compass and the small windows used for navigation just above the waterline, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
A Brazilian navy officer opens the hatch of the confiscated semi-submersible vessel at a base in Belém, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
A semi-submersible “narco-submarine” seized by Brazilian police and navy on Marajó island, displayed at a navy base in Belém, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
A semi-submersible “narco-submarine” seized by Brazilian police and navy on Marajó island, displayed at a navy base in Belém, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
A semi-submersible “narco-submarine” seized by Brazilian police and navy on Marajó island, displayed at a navy base in Belém, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
A semi-submersible “narco-submarine” seized by Brazilian police and navy on Marajó island, displayed at a navy base in Belém, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
Portrait of federal police chief Fernando Schwengber Casarin at the Pará regional headquarters in Belém, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
Federal police chief Fernando Schwengber Casarin at the Pará regional headquarters in Belém, pointing on a map to the spot on Marajó island where officers seized a 20-metre “narco-submarine”, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
Detail of Federal police chief Casarin’s hand on a map showing Marajó island, where Brazilian authorities found the 20-metre semi-submersible vessel, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
Detail of Federal police chief Casarin’s hand on a map showing Marajó island, where Brazilian authorities found the 20-metre semi-submersible vessel, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine.
Federal police chief Fernando Schwengber Casarin at the Pará regional headquarters in Belém, pointing on a map to the spot on Marajó island where officers seized a 20-metre “narco-submarine”, August 20, 2025.
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine. Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe.
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Migrants Leave The French Coast On A Rubber Boat Towards The UK
A small rubber boat with migrants leaves the French coast towards the English Channel in the dawn before the sunrise while a search and rescue vessels follows the dinghy to the French UK sea borders. Hundreds of small boats with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants have crossed the English Channel the past weeks while smugglers overload the boats with people and the French police is witnessing while sometimes intervenes. The UK and France began working on a rule, the one-in, one-out. According to the official data from the UK Home Office on August 15, 2x boats arrived illegally in the UK with 116 people. Gravelines, France on August 15, 2025 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto) -
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Migrants Leave The French Coast On A Rubber Boat Towards The UK
A small rubber boat with migrants leaves the French coast towards the English Channel in the dawn before the sunrise while a French SAR search and rescue vessels follows the dinghy to the French UK sea borders. Hundreds of small boats with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants have crossed the English Channel the past weeks while smugglers overload the boats with people and the French police is witnessing while sometimes intervenes. The UK and France began working on a rule, the one-in, one-out. According to the official data from the UK Home Office on August 15, 2x boats arrived illegally in the UK with 116 people. Gravelines, France on August 15, 2025 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto) -
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
border control wildlife bushmeat trafficking
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
border control wildlife bushmeat trafficking
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
border control wildlife bushmeat trafficking
Christophe Smets / Guardian / eyevine
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
border control wildlife bushmeat trafficking
Christophe Smets / Guardian / eyevine
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
border control wildlife bushmeat trafficking
Christophe Smets / Guardian / eyevine
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
border control wildlife bushmeat trafficking
Christophe Smets / Guardian / eyevine
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
border control wildlife bushmeat trafficking
Christophe Smets / Guardian / eyevine
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
border control wildlife bushmeat trafficking
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
border control wildlife bushmeat trafficking
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
border control wildlife bushmeat trafficking
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
wildlife bushmeat trafficking
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Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat
Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction.
At Brussels airport, customs staff are digging into suitcases and cooler boxes full of charred meats and fish. There are boxes of flies with shrivelled dead caterpillars and juicy live ones. It is 6am, and they are checking all hold luggage from four morning flights - three from Africa and one from China - in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal meat from wildlife making its way into Europe via this major transit hub. There is a lingering smell of dried seafood.
Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that's probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin - or it could just be a bit of beef.
Customs Zaventem Airport Belgium.
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Battle-scarred ghost town bears mute witness to Mexico’s drug wars. The army has reclaimed the village school that became a battlefield but few believe gangs’ bloody reign has ended
Those who knew El Limoncito remember a welcoming and industrious community of lime farmers who poured their sweat into the soils of Mexico’s sun-baked backlands in search of a better life. Then the drug conflict exploded and everything changed. The village’s primary school found itself on the frontline of a six-hour Monday morning gunfight that sparked a ferocious two-year struggle for control of the area. As gunmen from two rival cartels – armed with .50-calibre sniper rifles and improvised tanks – fought pitched battles for El Limoncito’s dusty streets, locals fled, leaving behind everything they had. “It was all-out war,” remembered one former resident, who asked not to be named for fear of being killed. El Limoncito’s deserted schoolhouse became a base for fighters from one of the warring factions – then a blood-spattered graveyard after their enemies stormed its classrooms in an attempt to retake the village. Family homes became makeshift forts used to spray invaders with gunfire. The pale yellow chapel was peppered with bullets and robbed of its flock.Mexican troops arrive in El Aguaje as part of efforts to wrestle back control of Mexico’s highly strategic hot lands from the drug cartels. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The Guardian
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Battle-scarred ghost town bears mute witness to Mexico’s drug wars. The army has reclaimed the village school that became a battlefield but few believe gangs’ bloody reign has ended
Those who knew El Limoncito remember a welcoming and industrious community of lime farmers who poured their sweat into the soils of Mexico’s sun-baked backlands in search of a better life. Then the drug conflict exploded and everything changed. The village’s primary school found itself on the frontline of a six-hour Monday morning gunfight that sparked a ferocious two-year struggle for control of the area. As gunmen from two rival cartels – armed with .50-calibre sniper rifles and improvised tanks – fought pitched battles for El Limoncito’s dusty streets, locals fled, leaving behind everything they had. “It was all-out war,” remembered one former resident, who asked not to be named for fear of being killed. El Limoncito’s deserted schoolhouse became a base for fighters from one of the warring factions – then a blood-spattered graveyard after their enemies stormed its classrooms in an attempt to retake the village. Family homes became makeshift forts used to spray invaders with gunfire. The pale yellow chapel was peppered with bullets and robbed of its flock.Mexican troops arrive in El Aguaje as part of efforts to wrestle back control of Mexico’s highly strategic hot lands from the drug cartels. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The Guardian
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Battle-scarred ghost town bears mute witness to Mexico’s drug wars. The army has reclaimed the village school that became a battlefield but few believe gangs’ bloody reign has ended
Those who knew El Limoncito remember a welcoming and industrious community of lime farmers who poured their sweat into the soils of Mexico’s sun-baked backlands in search of a better life. Then the drug conflict exploded and everything changed. The village’s primary school found itself on the frontline of a six-hour Monday morning gunfight that sparked a ferocious two-year struggle for control of the area. As gunmen from two rival cartels – armed with .50-calibre sniper rifles and improvised tanks – fought pitched battles for El Limoncito’s dusty streets, locals fled, leaving behind everything they had. “It was all-out war,” remembered one former resident, who asked not to be named for fear of being killed. El Limoncito’s deserted schoolhouse became a base for fighters from one of the warring factions – then a blood-spattered graveyard after their enemies stormed its classrooms in an attempt to retake the village. Family homes became makeshift forts used to spray invaders with gunfire. The pale yellow chapel was peppered with bullets and robbed of its flock.Mexican troops arrive in El Aguaje as part of efforts to wrestle back control of Mexico’s highly strategic hot lands from the drug cartels. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The Guardian
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Battle-scarred ghost town bears mute witness to Mexico’s drug wars. The army has reclaimed the village school that became a battlefield but few believe gangs’ bloody reign has ended
Those who knew El Limoncito remember a welcoming and industrious community of lime farmers who poured their sweat into the soils of Mexico’s sun-baked backlands in search of a better life. Then the drug conflict exploded and everything changed. The village’s primary school found itself on the frontline of a six-hour Monday morning gunfight that sparked a ferocious two-year struggle for control of the area. As gunmen from two rival cartels – armed with .50-calibre sniper rifles and improvised tanks – fought pitched battles for El Limoncito’s dusty streets, locals fled, leaving behind everything they had. “It was all-out war,” remembered one former resident, who asked not to be named for fear of being killed. El Limoncito’s deserted schoolhouse became a base for fighters from one of the warring factions – then a blood-spattered graveyard after their enemies stormed its classrooms in an attempt to retake the village. Family homes became makeshift forts used to spray invaders with gunfire. The pale yellow chapel was peppered with bullets and robbed of its flock.Father Gilberto Vergara, a Catholic priest in the municipality to which El Limoncito belongs, said it was impossible to know how many lives had been lost in the ongoing battle for the region. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The Guardian
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Battle-scarred ghost town bears mute witness to Mexico’s drug wars. The army has reclaimed the village school that became a battlefield but few believe gangs’ bloody reign has ended
Those who knew El Limoncito remember a welcoming and industrious community of lime farmers who poured their sweat into the soils of Mexico’s sun-baked backlands in search of a better life. Then the drug conflict exploded and everything changed. The village’s primary school found itself on the frontline of a six-hour Monday morning gunfight that sparked a ferocious two-year struggle for control of the area. As gunmen from two rival cartels – armed with .50-calibre sniper rifles and improvised tanks – fought pitched battles for El Limoncito’s dusty streets, locals fled, leaving behind everything they had. “It was all-out war,” remembered one former resident, who asked not to be named for fear of being killed. El Limoncito’s deserted schoolhouse became a base for fighters from one of the warring factions – then a blood-spattered graveyard after their enemies stormed its classrooms in an attempt to retake the village. Family homes became makeshift forts used to spray invaders with gunfire. The pale yellow chapel was peppered with bullets and robbed of its flock.A few miles out of town, hot land residents had built a roadside shrine to Jude the Apostle, the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes.
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Battle-scarred ghost town bears mute witness to Mexico’s drug wars. The army has reclaimed the village school that became a battlefield but few believe gangs’ bloody reign has ended
Those who knew El Limoncito remember a welcoming and industrious community of lime farmers who poured their sweat into the soils of Mexico’s sun-baked backlands in search of a better life. Then the drug conflict exploded and everything changed. The village’s primary school found itself on the frontline of a six-hour Monday morning gunfight that sparked a ferocious two-year struggle for control of the area. As gunmen from two rival cartels – armed with .50-calibre sniper rifles and improvised tanks – fought pitched battles for El Limoncito’s dusty streets, locals fled, leaving behind everything they had. “It was all-out war,” remembered one former resident, who asked not to be named for fear of being killed. El Limoncito’s deserted schoolhouse became a base for fighters from one of the warring factions – then a blood-spattered graveyard after their enemies stormed its classrooms in an attempt to retake the village. Family homes became makeshift forts used to spray invaders with gunfire. The pale yellow chapel was peppered with bullets and robbed of its flock.In Aguililla, a picturesque town 25 miles south of Limoncito, troops had occupied the main plaza and were offering free haircuts and check-ups in a bid to win hearts and minds in a community for decades under cartel control.
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