90% pure cocaine washing up on French beaches - update

More than 900 kg of high purity cocaine has now been recovered from French beaches. A warning has not deterred all. A 17-year-old was caught with five kilos of cocaine at Lacanau, a closed-off surfing beach near the southwestern city of Bordeaux. The bricks sport ‘diamante’ or ‘brilliante’ labels.

Officials have reported the drugs turning up on beaches near Nantes all the way to the resort town of Biarritz, more than 500km (300 miles) to the south.