Friday, 29. June 2007
Topic: DRUGS - on June 29, 2007 at 2:59:00 PM CEST
Quiet Spanish city is Europe's coke capital
Miranda de Ebro, a small industrial city in northern Spain, was once known for small blood sausages, a three-day fiesta after Holy Week and its strategic location as highway stopover - on the way to somewhere else.
But now the city has a new distinction: cocaine capital of Europe.
The United Nations World Drug Report this year ranks Miranda de Ebro as the city with the highest incidence of cocaine use in Europe and second in the world after New York, with a rate nearly five times as high as in St Moritz, London, Zurich and Madrid.
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