A ton of cannabis, weapons, luxury cars ... The loot is colossal.
The police dismantled this week a vast trafficking of drugs and weapons in the Paris region,
Le Figaro
learned
from a police source, confirming information from the
Parisian
.
A total of 12 people were indicted.
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They are not altar boys
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Since the beginning of 2019, investigators from the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (OCLCO) have been monitoring two figures of banditry from Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), aged 33 and 35, suspected of trafficking weapons. Both have a heavy criminal record: armed robberies, robberies with violence ... "
They are not altar boys,
" confirms our police source.
Soon, investigators realize that guns are not their only business.
The two defendants also organize an illegal cannabis trade, which relies on a network of lookouts and housing to store the goods.
Two brothers also appear in the file, responsible for bringing the cannabis resin back from Spain.
A judicial investigation is then opened in Bobigny, in July 2020.
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After two years of investigation, the OCLCO and the Anti-Narcotics Office, also seized, proceeded Tuesday to a wave of arrests in Seine-Saint-Denis, in Oise and in Val-de-Marne.
12 men and a woman were arrested, 690,000 euros were seized, as well as bulletproof vests, ammunition, handguns, cars and luxury watches.
The merchandise was hidden in garage boxes located in Val-de-Marne.
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It's a very mobile team
," said the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
All suspects imprisoned
The crackdown resulted in the presentation to the examining magistrate and the indictment of twelve suspects, Thursday and Friday.
All were remanded in custody.
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The investigation is continuing because there are certainly other places where it could be sold, outside of Seine-Saint-Denis.
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This Saturday morning, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin praised the work of the police in this file, "
which shows that if there are difficult neighborhoods, there is no neighborhood abandoned by the forces of the order.
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