Rarely does the anti-narcotics crackdown implicate an elected representative of the Republic.
Yet this is what happened this Friday morning in the agglomeration of Rouen (Seine-Maritime).
Mélanie Boulanger, mayor of Canteleu, was arrested, along with ten other people, in connection with a narcotics case, a judicial source said.
At the head of this commune of about 15,000 inhabitants located in the Rouen metropolis, Mélanie Boulanger, 44, was also head of the PS-EELV list in the last regional elections, won by Hervé Morin.
She is also vice-president of the metropolis.
The elected official was taken into custody, according to a police source.
The prosecutor of the Republic of Rouen, Frédéric Teillet, for his part confirmed this wave of arrests.
He specifies that “this operation took place on the basis of a rogatory commission from an investigating magistrate from the Bobigny judicial tribunal”, in Seine-Saint-Denis.
