While many knots remain to be untangled in the drug affair that is shaking the small town of Avallon, the first lines of defense are emerging. Rachid Habsaoui, the brother of left-wing mayor Jamilah Habsaoui, admitted to having served as a
“nurse by storing drugs
in an outbuilding (the garage)”
of the family home, which the councilor owns but where only his father resides, explains to Le
Figaro
his lawyer, Me César Lauwerie.
At 51, this welder, already convicted of drug-related offenses, clears his 46-year-old sister at the head of the commune of Avallon since 2021. Rachid Habsaoui is
“formal”
: the 70 kilos of cannabis resin, the cocaine , the cash and the twenty bars seized last Sunday in the garage of the pavilion in the working-class district of Morlande
“were stored by himself, without the knowledge of his sister and without her consent. She was therefore unaware of anything.”
Verifications in progress
According to his version, he plunged back into drugs after the death of their…