While the court of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) ends, the trial of the point of deal of the city Charles-Schmidt, one of the most lucrative of Saint-Ouen in 2015-2016, the criminal court of Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) sentenced dealers in the city of Micocouliers (14th arrondissement) to terms of up to ten years in prison.
In February 2018, the dismantling of the sales network in the heart of the city, and of the neighboring one of the Old Mill, had allowed the Marseille branch of OFAST, the Anti-Narcotics Office, to seize 42 kg of cannabis resin, 3 kg of herbal cannabis, 3 kg of cocaine, with a market value of over € 530,000, as well as over € 250,000 in cash.
One drug purchase every 2 minutes
It is information, in December 2017, which had put the police on the Basques of this very active network.
According to L a Provence, a customer bought goods every two minutes on average, with a peak in traffic at 6 p.m. and until closing at 8 p.m.
After two months of hideouts and spinning, the investigators had been able to organize a large net.
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23 defendants had been appearing since September 7.
Some had been released at the beginning of the summer, and placed under judicial supervision, after their lawyers had argued that, because of the confinement which had stopped the judicial machine, they had not been tried on time.
After ten days of hearing, despite their arguments to say they were innocent or to reduce their participation, the three presumed leaders of the network, Cheick Sylla, Yohan Adam and Fatah Laraba, were respectively sentenced to terms of 10 years, 8 years and 7 years of imprisonment.
Yohan Adam also received a ban on the possession of a weapon for 5 years.
