Le Figaro Nantes
This is what is called a vehicle inspection that has paid off.
The police inspected and then arrested four people driving in the priority district of Bellevue, in the west of Nantes, on January 19.
A search of the car yielded to the police no less than 58 kg of cannabis resin, as well as a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
Or a weapon of war.
Three of the four passengers were already known to the courts.
Three of the four passengers were 17 years old.
The matter does not end there.
After the suspects were taken into custody, the police investigation traced the thread of this drug trafficking network to a box, located in the Nantes metropolitan area.
Inside, the police discovered a new cache linked to drug trafficking, with an additional kilo of cannabis resin as well as new firearms: a submachine gun, an automatic pistol, ammunition.
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Three pre-trial detentions
The beautiful catch, given the banality of the initial situation, particularly delighted the agents of the Interdepartmental Judicial Police Service, slips a police source to Le
Figaro
.
The public prosecutor, Renaud Gaudeul, indicated on January 24 that he had indicted the four individuals, and had obtained the placement in pre-trial detention of three of them.
The defendants are being prosecuted for drug trafficking, trafficking in category A weapons, trafficking in category B weapons and criminal association.
A 19-year-old young man was shot and killed last fall in Bellevue.
In recent years, the district has become one of the key areas of drug trafficking in Nantes, as well as the scene of score-settling between rival gangs.
The latest episode in this gang war, a violent knife attack almost cost the life of a 20-year-old man on January 12.
The attempted homicide did not take place in the discretion of a building block or on the corner of an alley, but in the middle of a tram stop, under the eyes of local residents.