The image left no police officer indifferent at the Vitry-sur-Seine police station, in Val-de-Marne.
Tuesday morning, one of their colleagues, a peacekeeper, was handcuffed before their eyes then taken by the gendarmes of the Paris research section to be placed in police custody,
Le Figaro
learned from corroborating sources confirming a information from the
Parisian
.
The official is suspected of having provided information to a team of drug traffickers who allegedly imported several tons of cannabis into France from Spain.
An administrative assistant and twelve other individuals suspected of being involved in this network were arrested in the Paris region, mainly in Essonne, and placed in police custody on Tuesday.
150 kilos of cannabis were found during a search, specifies a source close to the investigation in Le
Figaro
.
300 kilos of cannabis in Moroccan suitcases
This dragnet comes as part of an investigation entrusted at the beginning of 2023 to the gendarmes of the research sections (SR) of Paris and Versailles, under the authority of Junalco (National Jurisdiction responsible for the fight against organized crime).
In February, three suspicious vehicles were reported to the gendarmerie in Valpuiseaux, in Essonne.
When the Surveillance and Intervention Platoon (PSIG) of Étampes tried to control them, one of the cars refused to comply and hit the gendarmes' vehicle several times before getting stuck in a field.
In his trunk, several Moroccan suitcases containing 300 kilos of cannabis resin were discovered, a source close to the investigation tells us.
The Paris SR begins its investigations and uncovers a large-scale criminal structure based in Essonne, with a logistics branch serving imports based in Spain.
Quickly identified, the logistician also turned out to be implicated in another investigation carried out by SR Versailles, jointly involved in the file.
The investigators finally discovered that the traffickers were in contact with a police officer stationed in a Val-de-Marne police station and an administrative assistant.
They are suspected of having illegally consulted police files, in particular the Vehicle Registration System (SIV), and of having transmitted the information to the network.
“It will be necessary to determine whether the police officer and the administrative assistant are simply guilty of illegal consultation of files or if they worked directly with the traffickers
,” underlines a source at AFP.