FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Part of the1.4 tonnes of cocaine seized by police with a value of 270 million euros at Le Havre harbour on February 12, 2014 is displayed at police headquarters in Nanterre, February 21, 2014. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo
PARIS (Reuters) - France is being inundated by a "white tsunami" of cocaine, the interior minister said on Thursday, with authorities seizing more than double the amount of the drug last year in an illicit economy linked to violent crimes.
At a presentation of a media campaign warning against the impact of cocaine use, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said he wanted drug users to be "aware of their responsibility when they feed a deadly economy by smoking a joint or snorting a line of cocaine."
