After a tip-off from their Venezuelan colleagues Spanish police have arrested a 35-year-old man in Barcelona who had received a parcel of crockery made from compressed cocaine. Tests showed that the 42-piece Mediterranean-style dinner set of cups, bowls and plates contained 20 kilos of the drug. It was sent to Barcelona from Maracaibo, Venezuela

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