Spanish quiz show apologises after asking contestants how much a gram of COCAINE costs
Spanish quiz show apologises after asking contestants how much a gram of COCAINE costs
The question featured on Atrapame Se Podes – translated to Catch Me If You CanThe contestants were asked if a gram of the drug costs €6 or €60 and got it rightShow is popular in Galicia, a region which has a reputation as a cocaine gateway
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The producers of a Spanish quiz show have apologised after asking contestants to guess the street price of cocaine.
The popular quiz show Atrapame Se Podes – which translates as Catch Me If You Can – asked the two contestants whether they thought a gram of the class A drug costs €6 or €60.
After initially hesitating, they guessed correctly that it was €60.
The quiz show is popular in the northwest region of Galicia, an area of Spain which has a reputation as being one of the main gateways into Europe for cocaine from South America.
Two contestants of Spanish quiz show Atrapame Se Podes – which translates as Catch Me If You Can – correctly guessed the street price for a gram of cocaine. The producers were later forced to apologise for the choice of question
Atrapame Se Podes sees contestants take part in several rounds of topical questions for a chance to win up to €25,000.
Its host Paco Lodeiro joked during the episode that the scriptwriters had a ‘policeman friend’ who knows the answer, The Times reported.
The show’s producers Voz Audiovisual said the question, which was created using information from a health ministry report on drugs, should not have been asked.
The state-run TVG channel, which airs the show, said: ‘It wasn’t the intention of the programme to disparage the serious problem of drug addiction.’
Galicia’s reputation as a drug smuggling gateway was advanced by the Netflix series Cocaine Coast, based on the novel Fariña, which tells the story of a fisherman who works for a tobacco smuggling ring led by the head of the Galician clans.
In 2019, a homemade submarine with three tonnes of cocaine hidden on board was captured by authorities in the region.
