{"id":284920,"date":"2026-02-15T05:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/284920\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:59:11","slug":"over-the-past-month-french-authorities-have-seized-nearly-12-tonnes-of-cocaine-around-polynesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/284920\/","title":{"rendered":"Over the past month, French authorities have seized nearly 12 tonnes of cocaine around Polynesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Over the past month, French authorities have seized nearly 12 tonnes of cocaine around Polynesia, including three that were between two and five tonnes each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">The United Nations has said in recent years that organised criminal groups trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine have expanded their presence in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Large amounts of drugs are transported from North and South America for Australian and New Zealand markets, according to the UN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">In 2025, the French Navy seized a record 87.6 tonnes of drugs worldwide, including 58 tonnes of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the past month, French authorities have seized nearly 12 tonnes of cocaine around Polynesia, including three that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17525,665,29893,20926,2837,11775,71,305,158762,13728,4486,11692,111,43,139,69,1118,10711,17286,1523,13572,4517,58019,66013,3048,12641,9939,21694,223,8229,33442,9938,35146,25535,102],"class_list":["post-284920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-17525","tag-around","tag-authorities","tag-cocaine","tag-during","tag-french","tag-from","tag-have","tag-interceptions","tag-joint","tag-month","tag-nearly","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-officials","tag-operation","tag-over","tag-pacific","tag-past","tag-polynesia","tag-polynesian","tag-said","tag-seized","tag-states","tag-step","tag-the","tag-they","tag-tonnes","tag-united","tag-vessel","tag-waters","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}