A man, nicknamed the "
Mozart of drug trafficking
", was indicted and imprisoned last week in an investigation into a cocaine import network, a judicial source said on Friday, confirming information from
World
.
The suspect, Sofiane B., was arrested on October 19 by the Anti-Narcotics Office (Ofast), said this source.
At the end of his police custody, Sofiane B. was indicted on October 21 for “
drug trafficking, criminal association and various customs offences
”, and was imprisoned, specified the judicial source.
One of his lawyers declined to comment.
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In September, two men, suspected of belonging to the same cocaine import network in France, were indicted for the same offenses and imprisoned too.
These arrests came after the discovery in September of 200 kilos of cocaine in a container at the port of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), according to Le
Monde
.
Sofiane B. was sentenced in 2011 to ten years in prison for participating in drug trafficking operating in France, Spain, Morocco and Algeria.
During his trial, he was called by the prosecutor the "
Mozart of drug trafficking
".
The public prosecutor had reminded the hearing that Sofiane B. had continued drug trafficking from his cell, during his incarceration in this case which he had described as "
out of the ordinary given the scale of the traffic, the volume, the number of defendants and the entanglement of cross-relationships
".
Sofiane B. is due to appear before the Paris Criminal Court with ten other people in March 2023 in a drug trafficking case.
Initially scheduled for March and then last July, the trial had been postponed.