Chelles: customs had intercepted a package filled with cocaine

This 24-year-old Chellois could still wait for his package: the package was in the hands of the customs of Wissous (Essonne), who had seized it at Orly airport on March 28. He should not have consulted the follow-up on a website. Because inside the small box, coming from Martinique, were no less than 305 g of cocaine divided into six packets, 64% pure.

The young man ended up having news of his package because last Wednesday, as soon as he was a doctor, the investigators of the Meaux Judicial Police arrested him at his home. At the end of his police custody, the father of the family found himself in the box of the criminal court of Meaux – this Friday – for transport and acquisition of narcotics in recidivism and for a customs offense, namely smuggling of narcotics. The judges sentenced him to three years in prison, including two years in prison, with a warrant of committal, as well as a customs fine of 19,825 euros.

Public health issues

"It was my last solution," whispered the young man, already convicted in 2020 in Martinique, for drug trafficking. He explained his decision to acquire cocaine by a debt of money, following a theft of jewelry of which he would have been a victim. Jewels that had been entrusted to him to resell. "So, you commit an offense to reimburse another offense," commented the presiding judge, convinced that the defendant was evoking a trafficking of jewelry. An analysis that the Chellois contested.

The magistrate did not appreciate learning that the young man frequented the casinos while he highlights big financial difficulties: "The rule is that we lose in the casinos. Because otherwise, they would have gone bankrupt a long time ago." Deputy prosecutor Léa Dreyfus - who denounced the use of "easy money" - requested 30 months in prison, including two months in prison, with a warrant of committal. Before recalling the public health issues, in the fight against drug trafficking. The defense lawyer Me Quentin Guernigou asked that his client – perfectly inserted – not be incarcerated and be sentenced to a "pedagogical" sentence.