在法国的一家可口可乐工厂竟发现了价值高达5000万欧元的可卡因。
Cocaine with a street value of up to 50 million euros has been discovered at a Coca-Cola plant in France.
据悉,这些毒品以袋装形式藏在从南美运来的一批浓缩橙汁的集装箱里。
The drug, hidden in bags among a delivery of orange juice concentrate, arrived in a container from South America.
目前调查正在法国南部一个名为锡涅的小镇进行。
An investigation is under way in Signes, a village in southern France.
此次一共收缴了370公斤的可卡因,是法国本土发现的最大毒品案件之一。
The seizure of 370kg of cocaine makes it one of the largest finds on French soil.
法国土伦检察官泽维尔·达哈布表示,这批毒品“价值5000万欧元”,并称此次发现是“一个非常糟糕的惊喜”。
The prosecutor of Toulon, Xavier Tarabeux, said the delivery "has a street value of 50 million euros" and referred to it as "a very bad surprise".
当调查员试图追踪这批毒品的来源时,该可口可乐工厂的工人们被排除了涉案嫌疑。
Employees at the Coca-Cola plant have been ruled out of any involvement as investigators attempt to trace the origin of the drug.
可口可乐该地区总裁让·丹尼斯在接受当地新闻网站Var-Matin采访时表示:“初步调查显示,公司员工没有卷入其中。”
"The first elements of the investigation have shown that employees are in no way involved," Jean-Denis Malgras, the regional president of Coca-Cola, told local news website Var-Matin.
可口可乐最原始的配方是由美国药剂师约翰·彭伯顿在1886年所创,据说添加有从古柯叶中提取而来的可卡因。
The original Coca-Cola formula, created in 1886 by US pharmacist John Pemberton, is believed to have contained traces of cocaine derived from coca leaf extract.
法国当局上次发现大批可卡因是在2015年4月,当时法国海关官员协助逮捕了两名试图用游艇载运250千克可卡因前往英国的男子。
The last big seizure of cocaine involving French authorities was in April 2015, when French customs officers aided in the arrest of two men caught trying to sail a yacht loaded with 250kg of the drug to the UK.