Cocaine with a street value of up to 50 million euros has been discovered at a Coca-Cola plant in France.
在法国的一家可口可乐工厂竟发现了价值高达5000万欧元的可卡因。
The drug, hidden in bags among a delivery of orange juice concentrate, arrived in a container from South America.
据悉,这些毒品以袋装形式藏在从南美运来的一批浓缩橙汁的集装箱里。
An investigation is under way in Signes, a village in southern France.
目前调查正在法国南部一个名为锡涅的小镇进行。
The seizure of 370kg of cocaine makes it one of the largest finds on French soil.
此次一共收缴了370公斤的可卡因,是法国本土发现的最大毒品案件之一。
The prosecutor of Toulon, Xavier Tarabeux, said the delivery "has a street value of 50 million euros" and referred to it as "a very bad surprise".
法国土伦检察官泽维尔·达哈布表示,这批毒品“价值5000万欧元”,并称此次发现是“一个非常糟糕的惊喜”。
Employees at the Coca-Cola plant have been ruled out of any involvement as investigators attempt to trace the origin of the drug.
当调查员试图追踪这批毒品的来源时,该可口可乐工厂的工人们被排除了涉案嫌疑。
"The first elements of the investigation have shown that employees are in no way involved," Jean-Denis Malgras, the regional president of Coca-Cola, told local news website Var-Matin.
可口可乐该地区总裁让·丹尼斯在接受当地新闻网站Var-Matin采访时表示:“初步调查显示,公司员工没有卷入其中。”
The original Coca-Cola formula, created in 1886 by US pharmacist John Pemberton, is believed to have contained traces of cocaine derived from coca leaf extract.
可口可乐最原始的配方是由美国药剂师约翰·彭伯顿在1886年所创,据说添加有从古柯叶中提取而来的可卡因。
The last big seizure of cocaine involving French authorities was in April 2015, when French customs officers aided in the arrest of two men caught trying to sail a yacht loaded with 250kg of the drug to the UK.
法国当局上次发现大批可卡因是在2015年4月,当时法国海关官员协助逮捕了两名试图用游艇载运250千克可卡因前往英国的男子。