Two police officers were sentenced Friday in Marseille to two years and 18 months in prison, to be served under an electronic bracelet. The two officials had allowed their informant, a drug trafficker, to find a man whom the latter suspected of having soaked in cannabis resin.
Salim Benyoub, alias ‘The Jackal’ was sentenced to nine years in prison and an arrest warrant was issued. This trafficker was already sentenced to life in Algeria for drug trafficking, and has now settled in Meknes (Morocco) The prosecution had requested on Thursday a three-year sentence against these two officials, now dismissed from the national police. The prosecution, according to the prosecution, documents extracted from police files had enabled him to trace Mourad B. In March 2018, after having dozens of kilos of cannabis resin stolen in Val-d'Oise, "the Jackal" kept finding Mourad. He had recruited a commando to kidnap and sequester him.