Irish brothers held as police probe drugs plot

TWO brothers from Ireland are being quizzed by French police investigating a plot to smuggle millions of euro worth of cannabis and cocaine over the border from Spain.

The men were arrested last week and are being held in the southern French town of Perpignan.

They are suspected of being involved in a plot to smuggle drugs with a street value of €11m three-quarters of a ton of cannabis worth €10m and 15 kilograms of cocaine, valued at over €1m.