It is, it seems, the strong smell of cannabis outside the door of an apartment located rue Auguste-Poullain, in Saint-Denis, which aroused suspicion.
And the smell was not misleading, since the police got hold Friday on 95 kg of cannabis inside this accommodation, located in the street which passes just behind the police station of downtown.
This anonymous information led the police from the Territorial Contact Brigade (BTC) to this address. The officials called in a dog that specialized in finding narcotics.
The suspects were cutting and packaging the drugs
Entering the apartment, they found three men, aged 19 to 23, from the Val-de-Marne. They also got hold of 52 kg of grass and 43 kg of cannabis resin. The three suspects, whose investigation appears to indicate that they were cutting cannabis resin and packaging the drug, were arrested. This Sunday, they were still in police custody, and this could be extended.
The apartment in question is located on the edge of the city of Dourdin, considered to be one of the major drug trafficking points in Saint-Denis. A phenomenon that had even led in 2017 the lessor Logirep to condemn an underground car park, which has become the haunt of dealers. At the start of 2019, the police from the local police station had, after a year of investigation, made around fifteen arrests, and had seized 33 kg of cannabis. This vast sweep had, at least initially, "disorganized the traffic", according to the inhabitants at the time.