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The subterfuge will not have escaped the vigilance of the gendarmes.
Three men who grew cannabis in a cornfield located in the town of Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc (Loire-Atlantique) will have to explain their act to justice in March 2024. The facts of which they are accused date back to 2022. Based on anonymous information and cross-checks carried out subsequently, the soldiers of the Nantes gendarmerie company had identified a site on which the cultivation carried out was not only legal.
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At first, the gendarmes had concentrated their investigations on the farmer who owned the land.
This one had denied in block and ensured not to be aware of anything.
He would not have seen the cannabis plants in his field.
Words that did not really surprise the police for whom it was not a first even if this kind of story remains
“infrequent”
.
Rifles with the serial number filed down
The trick of the thugs was as follows: they planted cannabis in an irrigated cornfield.
The second plant growing faster than the first, it was then not very visible.
Then charge the criminals to collect their loot before the passage of agricultural machinery.
A scheme that the gendarmes managed to uncover, which allowed them to trace the individuals who were behind it.
Two men were arrested on March 14 in the town of Thouaré-sur-Loire.
A third man, an accomplice, presented himself to the gendarmerie the next day.
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All have acknowledged their involvement in this affair.
“These are people from the Traveler community.
They are unfavorably known to our services”
, indicates to
Figaro
a source close to the investigation.
One of the members of the trio has a dozen mentions in his criminal record.
stolen caravan
During the searches carried out, the gendarmes made important discoveries.
“They got their hands on three undeclared shotguns with the serial number filed off.
There were also narcotics
, ”says the same source.
In detail, the soldiers found six cannabis loaves as well as 200 grams of cannabis resin.
A caravan which belonged to the farmer and which had been stolen from him by one of the members of the trio was also found.
It was returned to him.
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After their custody, the three men were released.
They will have to appear before the Nantes Criminal Court on March 14, 2023.
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