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‘Everywhere. Everything. Everyone’: Drugs are back in the EU

FILE - Bales of cocaine weighting some 5,2 tons and a seized yacht are displayed for the media at a Portuguese Navy base in Almada, south of Lisbon, on Oct. 18, 2021. Records amounts of cocaine are being seized in Europe while manufacturing of the banned stimulant drug is now taking place inside the the European Union, officials in charge of fighting and monitoring drugs use in the bloc warned on Friday, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) FILE - A masked policeman carries packs of cocaine, at the organized crime prosecutor' office in Bucharest, Romania, on July 1, 2016. Records amounts of cocaine are being seized in Europe while manufacturing of the banned stimulant drug is now taking place inside the the European Union, officials in charge of fighting and monitoring drugs use in the bloc warned on Friday, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru) In this photo obtained from U.S. federal court records, Jeffri Dávila-Reyes, third from left, and two others hold their hands in the air as they are intercepted in the Caribbean Sea on Oct. 29, 2015. Dávila-Reyes says he's still mystified how he ended up serving hard time in a U.S. federal prison. His cocaine bust at sea was closer to his homeland of Costa Rica than the United States, and the few kilos of drugs he was carrying were bound for Jamaica rather than American shores. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP)