Nineteen people were sentenced on Friday to terms ranging from one to eleven years in prison by the correctional court of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) for drug trafficking which generated tens of millions of euros in profits.
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The traffic, which is based on three channels located in Ile-de-France, Bordeaux and Brittany, took place between September 2016 and September 2018, said the prosecutor's office of Bobigny. The supply chains were supplied with cannabis resin and cocaine "at the wholesale narcotic market" in the Netherlands. They then imported the products into France and sold them to wholesalers or semi-wholesalers, specifies the parquet floor.
The investigations made it possible to establish, notably thanks to wiretapping, the import of at least 1.5 tonnes of cannabis, according to the same source. The product, loaded into trucks, came from the Rif region in northern Morocco. "The defendants appear to be experienced in drug trafficking, the latter having already been severely sentenced in the past," said a source close to the investigation.
For their traffic, they used "excessively sophisticated means: encrypted satellite telephones, covers fitted in vehicles, operated by electronic remote controls, beacon detectors", according to this source. And to escape arrest, they burned vehicles and cannabis shipments, the source added.
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