The delicacy is being sold on the black market in France. Some think the ban is an attempt to ‘keep down’ the country’s Muslim immigrants
Customs agents in Marseilles were jubilant when they pried open a shipping container to find nine tonnes of contraband substance.
The illicit goods were not, however, drugs or cigarettes, but 15,300 jars of sticky hazelnut spread.
The port seizure in May was part of a campaign by the authorities to bar El Mordjene, a sweet Algerian spread that enjoyed explosive success last year thanks to a craze propelled by TikTok and Instagram.
