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German customs authorities seized more than a half ton of cocaine hidden in a cargo of bananas at the port of Hamburg, authorities revealed on Thursday. Four people were arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle the cocaine into Germany from Ecuador aboard a ship, according to a statement from Germany’s Customs Investigation Office. Customs officers in Hamburg found 520 blocks of cocaine hidden between crates of bananas in a shipping container addressed to a company in Frankfurt during an inspection on January 4. Investigators subsequently arrested four men between the ages of 36 and 67 on su…

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