The Vice-President of Colombia has accused celebrities such as the model Kate Moss, right, of helping to finance his country’s drug war.

“Cocaine not only destroys you, it also destroys a country” is the theme of a hard-hitting advertising campaign aimed at Europeans. Moss does not appear in the “The Cocaine Curse” advertisements, launched yesterday, but Francisco Santos said that the supermodel, who has been photographed snorting the drug, was a perfect example.

“To me it’s baffling that somebody who helps cause so much pain in Colombia is doing better than ever and winning more contracts than ever,” he said.

“And I never once heard her say ‘I’m sorry’. When policemen, judges, journalists, common men and women are dying every day because of (drug-related violence), that hurts.

“We need to tell Europeans that that line of coke they snort is tainted in blood.”

Storm, Moss’s modelling agency in London, did not immediately comment. (AP)

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