It is a "nice pickaxe" from the narcotics brigade (BS) of the Parisian judicial police, and the case is not over.
The investigation is continuing, but the wave of arrests and seizures are telling.
Above all, "Pepito", nickname of the purchasing center given by users and "executives" is at a standstill.
On October 10 and 11, Stups investigators carried out a wave of arrests and juicy seizures.
The police arrest the team of this not very official "call center"... Five men, aged 20 to 27, living between Le Blanc-Mesnil and Pierrefitte-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis), Clamart and Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine) and Paris XVII are placed in police custody.
The fine team is made up of the “manager”, the supplier, the man in charge of recruiting the delivery people and managing the teams… But also the person whose mission is to restock the delivery people.
Finally, the historical owner of this call center who sold his "company" to the new manager.
A dismantled crack “kitchen”
During searches at the various homes, the police get their hands on 1.4 kg of cocaine, 50 g of MDMA (ecstasy)… The entire “kitchen” to make crack, a handgun, two luxury sedans are also seized. , a TMax scooter and 14,000 euros in cash!
This investigation with drawers goes back to 9 months.
She was entrusted to the "Stups" by the Paris prosecutor's office last February following a tragedy that occurred five months earlier.
On September 6, 2021, in a Parisian apartment, a 42-year-old man died of an overdose while having sex with a partner.
The investigations and the autopsy of the victim show that the two men had used 3-MMC, a drug nicknamed the “new cocaine”.
The product was ordered on a call center on WhatsApp, by the host.
He is being prosecuted for manslaughter and drug trafficking.
Police and magistrates will extend the investigation and carefully trace the thread of this fatal order to a delivery man.
Delivery guy who turns out to be… A 23-year-old delivery girl.
The latter will give, during her hearings, valuable information which has made it possible to go back to the management team of “Pepito”.
In France, 3-MMC, which appeared more than ten years ago, is thought to be the cause of more than twenty deaths per year.
Investigators regularly dismantle call centers.