It is now a classic.
Investigators from the Paris judicial police (PJ) narcotics brigade and their counterparts in the West Indies have just dismantled a network for the exchange of cocaine and cannabis resin by post.
Three criminals, aged in their thirties, were indicted in Paris between February and March as part of this juicy traffic between the nineteenth arrondissement of the capital and Martinique.
It is in a way an error of recipient which betrayed the traffickers.
On December 16, David discovered two letters in his letterbox, sent to his old address in the 19th arrondissement of Paris and arrived at his new home by the mail transfer service subscribed to with La Poste.
Suprise in the envelopes: 57 grams in one, 59 in the other.
The young man then goes to the police station to explain the situation.
Investigators from the narcotics brigade of the regional directorate of the Paris judicial police are responsible for the investigations.
They monitor the area of David's old address and identify two suspects, Alvire and Blondu, who regularly come to monitor the premises.
"Cocaine is flowing freely in the West Indies while cannabis is more difficult to find there"
In early February, the police arrested the two suspects.
During searches, they get their hands on three cell phones, 57 grams of cannabis and a little less than one gram of cocaine, but also and above all on three PTT passes allowing letterboxes to be opened.
The two suspects are taken into custody at the PJ premises in Paris.
During their interrogations, they confess and explain that they have set up a cannabis-cocaine exchange system with a Martinican correspondent.
"The system is profitable because cocaine flows freely in the West Indies while cannabis is more difficult to find there", underlines a magistrate.
The officers of the Ofast Caribbean branch are responsible for identifying their Antillean correspondent.
A childhood friend, found on social networks
On March 9, they questioned Samuel, 30, in Lamentin, Martinique.
This paunchy fellow is placed in police custody and explains that he was in contact with a childhood friend, found on social networks, then met during a stay in France.
According to the elements of the file, he would have sent him about a kilo of cocaine, exchanged for cannabis.
Samuel explains that after a death in his family, he felt the need to smoke to support the weight of mourning.
He also mentions a debt of 500 euros.
Unemployed, he has already been convicted four times, notably for trafficking.