A total of five crack traffickers were sentenced Friday to eight and ten years in prison by the Bobigny judicial court, Seine-Saint-Denis prosecutor Éric Mathais announced on Saturday.
The defendants were arrested in Saint-Denis and Saint-Ouen by the Parisian judicial police in possession of two kilograms of cocaine, 100 grams of crack and 18 grams of heroin, for a resale price estimated at nearly 200,000 euros.
"
We found what is called a kitchen, that is to say the equipment that will make it possible to make crack,
" added the prosecution.
Of the six people tried in immediate appearance on Friday, one was released.
The prison sentences are accompanied by a warrant of committal, which means immediate incarceration, and fines ranging from 10,000 to 80,000 euros.
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Four convicts of Senegalese nationalities
Four convicts, of Senegalese nationality, were sentenced to a definitive ban from French territory.
The fifth, born in France, was banned from staying in Île-de-France for a period of five years.
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Crack trafficking causes insecurity and causes health damage
," said Bobigny prosecutor Eric Mathais, who also welcomed "
a new fairly emblematic sentence
" in the matter.
In early October, the Bobigny court sentenced three crack dealers to terms of up to seven years in prison.
A smokable, inexpensive and highly addictive derivative of cocaine, crack has long plagued the north-east of Paris and its immediate suburbs.
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The movement at the end of September of about fifty crack addicts from the Jardins d'Éole district in the 19th arrondissement of Paris to a square on the edge of the ring road made residents fear the emergence of a new hotspot. consumption along the Seine-Saint-Denis.
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The authorities have erected a wall between the neighboring town of Aubervilliers and the square where drug addicts have been relocated, supposed to prevent their passage to the suburbs.
For its detractors, this wall, described by some residents as a “
wall of shame
”, is the symbol of the state's powerlessness in the face of the endemic scourge of drug trafficking and consumption.