A net in a narcotics case led Friday, October 8 morning to the arrest of eleven people, including the socialist mayor of Canteleu (Seine-Maritime), near Rouen, AFP learned from a judicial source.
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Contacted by AFP, the prosecutor of the Republic of Rouen, Frédéric Teillet, confirmed this wave of arrests, specifying that "
this operation took place on the rogatory commission of an investigating magistrate of the judicial court of Bobigny
", in Seine-Saint-Denis.
The mayor of Canteleu, a town of about 15,000 inhabitants in the metropolis of Rouen, is Mélanie Boulanger, 44, who was head of the PS-EELV list in the last regional elections, won by Hervé Morin.
She is also vice-president of the metropolis.
The elected official was taken into custody, according to a police source.
