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The First Shipment of Heroin Pills in the World Is Intercepted in Madrid Through an Unprecedented Route Between Spain and Colombia

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The agents of the Central Narcotics Brigade of the National Police met in November with something that no one had ever seen before. Heroin in pills. "A pioneering format in Spain, in Europe and in the world," explains Commissioner Alberto Morales, head of UDYCO. It is not a simple aesthetic variation, but an unprecedented modality that, according to the researchers, aims to renew the market for a drug "already hated" to reach a "younger" audienc…

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Heroin pills in the form of a skull, which can recall the great damage that this dangerous drug did to a whole generation of Spaniards in the eighties, but also be seen by the younger ones as an attractive product or a novel way to achieve a great placen. The police have intervened for the first time a game of heroin pills that were to be distributed in Madrid and Barcelona. “We have been asking Interpol and Europol to see if they had detected h…

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The agents of the Central Narcotics Brigade of the National Police met in November with something that no one had ever seen before. Heroin in pills. "A pioneering format in Spain, in Europe and in the world," explains Commissioner Alberto Morales, head of UDYCO. It is not a simple aesthetic variation, but an unprecedented modality that, according to the researchers, aims to renew the market for a drug "already hated" to reach a "younger" audienc…

·Madrid, Spain
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The operation was supported by the U.S. DEA and the Colombian police.

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The National Police has intercepted for the first time a cache of heroin in pill format and has aborted a new route from Colombia for the introduction of this drug,...

·Madrid, Spain
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Agents of the National Police, in collaboration with the Administration for Drug Control (DEA) and the Colombian National Police, have intercepted heroin in pill format and broken up a criminal organization allegedly responsible for its introduction in Spain. The operation has interrupted a new, unused route for the introduction of heroin from the South American country, and five persons have been arrested as alleged responsible for the crimes o…

The Spanish National Police, in collaboration with the U.S. DEA and the Colombian police, has intercepted for the first time in Spain a shipment of heroin in pills, in an operation in which eight kilos of this drug have been seized when they were to be delivered in broad daylight in a car park of [...] The entry Decomisan for the first time in Spain heroin in pills with the support of the DEA was first published in Foco Informativa.

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El Confidencial broke the news in Spain on Friday, December 12, 2025.
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