Perhaps while in police custody, the idea germinated in their minds to convert to marketing.
Arrested on Wednesday, three small dealers in Bourg-la-Reine were selling weed… with the effigy of Emmanuel Macron!
More precisely, the sachets of herb sold to consumers were decorated with a sticker representing the President of the Republic smoking a large joint, his face framed by a frieze of marijuana leaves.
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The hash bars were embellished with the portrait of the Minister of Justice, but in a lawyer dress and grumpy air.
It is in fact a resumption of a caricature of the cartoonist Deloire, published last year during the trial of the Balkany couple, which Eric Dupond-Moretti defended, and which makes the former lawyer say: "J 've always been drawn to the smell of shit ”.
It should surely be seen as a play on words with "shit".
Sheets of stickers bearing the effigy of Eric Dupond-Moretti were found.
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"The goodies in the bags, we often see them now," comments a police officer.
But with Emmanuel Macron or Eric Dupond-Moretti, all the same, no.
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These three small dealers, including one who was more of the tout, had been under surveillance for several weeks.
They were retailing in the Lafayette area.
When the police intervened on Wednesday, the main seller had a satchel containing about 20 sachets of weed and some money.
In the common areas of the building where they were dealing, the police found some 200 grams of cannabis resin.
Other bags found were in the effigy of Bart Simpson or the video game Grand Theft Auto.
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Placed in custody on Wednesday, the trio, made up of young adults and a minor, was to be referred this Friday.
Presumably to be summoned later to the criminal court.