Two police officers were sentenced Friday in Marseille to two years and 18 months in prison, to be served under an electronic bracelet. The prosecution had requested on Thursday a three-year sentence against these two officials, now dismissed from the national police.
Salim Benyoub, alias “the Jackal” was sentenced to nine years in prison and an arrest warrant was issued. This trafficker, already sentenced to life in Algeria for drug trafficking, has now settled in Meknes (Morocco) In March 2018, after having dozens of kilos of cannabis resin stolen in Val d'Oise, " the Jackal" kept finding Mourad B., whom he suspected of having dipped in this “coring”. He used his multiple police connections, notably being an official informant for the Central Office for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (OCRTIS) According to the prosecution, documents extracted from police files had enabled him to trace Mourad.