Six men were indicted on Friday, October 2 as part of an investigation relating to more than a hundred kilos of narcotics, cannabis or cocaine, announced Friday the Interregional Specialized Jurisdiction (JIRS) of Nancy.
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This investigation began with the work of the cell for the fight against digital crime (C3N) of the national gendarmerie.
She had managed to capture encrypted messages exchanged between the criminals and their supplier of narcotics residing abroad, said the same source.
Led by the Metz gendarmerie section, assisted by the Moselle gendarmerie group and the Metz Interministerial Research Group (GIR), the investigations started in April led to a team of criminals who imported narcotics, more than one hundred kilograms, including cocaine and cannabis.
Tuesday, on the rogatory commission of a JIRS investigating judge, six men aged 30 to 40, residing in Moselle, were arrested and placed in police custody.
At the same time, a seventh man was arrested in Belgium in execution of a European arrest warrant.
Fourteen vehicles suspected of having been financed through drug trafficking, or having been used to transport drugs, were seized.
One of them was equipped with a fitted cache.
The six men were indicted for criminal conspiracy, importing narcotics and trafficking narcotics, JIRS said.