The cocaine ? with a street value of around 160 million pounds ? was found stuffed inside 31 suitcases and is believed to have been, at least in part, brought into the country on an Air France flight from Venezuela.
The ?luggage? was registered under false names that did not correspond to passengers on the flight to Paris? Charles de Gaulle airport, police sources said.
Some 900kg of the drugs were seized in the airport while the remainder was taken from a lorry en route to Luxembourg, according to Le Monde.
A police source said the drugs were destined for the ?Ndrangeta, the Italian mafia based in Calabria that is believed to control up to 80 per cent of all cocaine imports to Europe.
Three unnamed British men and three Italians were arrested in Paris, according to Venezuelan justice and interior minister Miguel Rodriguez, who said three Police National Guard officers were also arrested in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. (TELEGRAPH)
