{"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":{"0":"post-284920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-17525","9":"tag-around","10":"tag-authorities","11":"tag-cocaine","12":"tag-during","13":"tag-french","14":"tag-from","15":"tag-have","16":"tag-interceptions","17":"tag-joint","18":"tag-month","19":"tag-nearly","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-of","25":"tag-officials","26":"tag-operation","27":"tag-over","28":"tag-pacific","29":"tag-past","30":"tag-polynesia","31":"tag-polynesian","32":"tag-said","33":"tag-seized","34":"tag-states","35":"tag-step","36":"tag-the","37":"tag-they","38":"tag-tonnes","39":"tag-united","40":"tag-vessel","41":"tag-waters","42":"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}]}}