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Waste mafia: the gendarmes strike at the heart of organized crime

2022-05-12T07:55:44.238Z


INFO LE FIGARO – Nine suspected traffickers were arrested on Monday in Gard and Bouches-du-Rhône. The sector dismantled by the Office for the fight against damage to the environment would involve around one hundred thousand tonnes of rubbish and rubble. That's ten times the weight of...


In the shadow of a narco-banditry which splashes France with deal points and hits the headlines by sowing corpses mowed down with the Kalashnikov, organized crime recycles itself in waste traffic.

A less risky business but just as lucrative.

Evidenced by the spectacular dragnet that have just carried out, in the Gard and the Bouches-du-Rhône, the gendarmes of the Central office for the fight against attacks on the environment and public health (Oclaesp) and the Nîmes Research Section.

At the end of several months of a tight investigation within the framework of a judicial investigation opened last December by the specialized interregional jurisdiction (JIRS) of Marseilles, the soldiers arrested nine people, including dishonest operators who responded very officially to calls for tenders and which charged for the recovery and treatment of waste without ever recycling it.

A well-established modus operandi

The modus operandi is well established: once the jackpot is pocketed...

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Source: lefigaro

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