In this image released by the Dutch Interior and Justice Ministry on Friday Oct. 12, 2012, showing a major cocaine seizure displayed Thursday Oct. 11, 2012. More than eight tons of cocaine were hidden among boxes of bananas when it was seized, and the fruit went to the monkeys and other creatures at the Blijdorp zoo in Rotterdam. The drugs were seized Monday in the Belgian port of Antwerp aboard a ship from Ecuador, while the bananas were allowed to continue on to the zoo in Rotterdam, the shipment's final destination. Dutch authorities say the seizure is the biggest ever in the Netherlands or Belgium. (AP Photo/Dutch Interior and Justice Ministry, HO)
In this image released by the Dutch Interior and Justice Ministry on Friday Oct. 12, 2012, showing a major cocaine seizure displayed Thursday Oct. 11, 2012. More than eight tons of cocaine were hidden among boxes of bananas when it was seized, and the fruit went to the monkeys and other creatures at the Blijdorp zoo in Rotterdam. The drugs were seized Monday in the Belgian port of Antwerp aboard a ship from Ecuador, while the bananas were allowed to continue on to the zoo in Rotterdam, the shipment's final destination. Dutch authorities say the seizure is the biggest ever in the Netherlands or Belgium. (AP Photo/Dutch Interior and Justice Ministry, HO)
In this image released by the Dutch Interior and Justice Ministry on Friday Oct. 12, 2012, showing a box of bananas in which was hidden large amounts of cocaine and displayed Thursday Oct. 11, 2012. More than eight tons of cocaine were hidden among boxes of bananas when it was seized, and the fruit went to the monkeys and other creatures at the Blijdorp zoo in Rotterdam. The drugs were seized Monday in the Belgian port of Antwerp aboard a ship from Ecuador, while the bananas were allowed to continue on to the zoo in Rotterdam, the shipment's final destination. Dutch authorities say the seizure is the biggest ever in the Netherlands or Belgium. (AP Photo/Dutch Interior and Justice Ministry, HO)
In this image released by the Dutch Interior and Justice Ministry on Friday Oct. 12, 2012, showing a customs officer as he cuts into a block of cocaine, displayed Thursday Oct. 11, 2012. More than eight tons of cocaine were hidden among boxes of bananas when it was seized, and the fruit went to the monkeys and other creatures at the Blijdorp zoo in Rotterdam. The drugs were seized Monday in the Belgian port of Antwerp aboard a ship from Ecuador, while the bananas were allowed to continue on to the zoo in Rotterdam, the shipment's final destination. Dutch authorities say the seizure is the biggest ever in the Netherlands or Belgium. (AP Photo/Dutch Interior and Justice Ministry, HO)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ? A major cocaine seizure in Europe has turned out to be good news for the animals at Rotterdam's zoo.
The drugs were hidden among boxes of bananas, and the fruit was later donated to the monkeys and other creatures at the Blijdorp zoo.
Dutch prosecutors said Friday more than eight tons of cocaine was hidden among the bananas on a ship from Ecuador. The drugs were seized Monday in the Belgian port of Antwerp, while the bananas were allowed to continue on to Rotterdam ? the shipment's final destination. Dutch police arrested a Belgian truck driver and four Dutch men on Tuesday.
Dutch authorities say the seizure is the biggest ever in the Netherlands or Belgium.
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