It is a difficult area for the police to access.
Complicated to watch.
Almost impossible to infiltrate.
On the slab of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) handed over to pedestrians, made of nooks and crannies full of lookouts, squares and kindergartens, almost everyone knows and recognizes each other.
However, by dint of patience, the teams of the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (OCLCO) have succeeded in setting up a particularly effective observation system.
In their sights at the start of their preliminary investigation, in spring 2020, there are two men: Mamadou K., 33, and Mourad S., 35.
Two large-scale criminals established in Seine-Saint-Denis, from Bobigny and Saint-Ouen, known for cases of armed robberies, robberies with violence, and concealment of thefts.
Profiles of "high-end" robbers.
Suspected of "holding" the neighborhood
In the course of their observations, the police officers, then acting on a rogatory commission from an investigating judge in Bobigny, noted that their two "targets" not only engaged in arms trafficking, but that most of their activities is in fact focused on drug trafficking in which they seem to control several links in the chain.
So much so that the men of the OCLCO suspect them of "holding" the neighborhood.
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For this, they seem to have seasoned “lieutenants” of the same age as them, in their thirties, from the Paris region, also known for cases of theft with violence, criminal conspiracy to commit murder, and so on.
This “team” also has rather plethora of human and technical resources (network of lookouts and apartments to store narcotics).
Lurking in the shadows, the police assist, for example, at the unloading, in the middle of the night, of a vehicle filled with bales of cannabis.
The operation is carried out in record time by a team of devilishly efficient hooded young people.
12 people arrested
During last spring, the file took on a new dimension. The supply channel for this cannabis trafficking is highlighted. It would be managed by two brothers from Oise who import hash from southern Spain. From that moment on, the Anti-Narcotics Office (Ofast) is also seized of the case. The observations continue and end up leading on Tuesday, October 19, to twelve arrests, eleven men and one woman. The latter was left free at the end of her police custody. The first five were presented this Thursday before an investigating judge in Bobigny with a view to their indictments, in particular for criminal association with a view to committing the offense of drug trafficking, money laundering, etc. They were all imprisoned . For the other six,the deferrals were underway this Friday.
During searches organized in several municipalities in the Paris region (Bobigny, Saint-Denis, Bondy, Tremblay-en-France, Clichy or Bagnolet) and Oise (Creil), this with the support of the BRI and the Raid in particular , investigators get their hands on three weapons (revolver and automatic pistols) and more than a ton of cannabis scattered over several storage locations.
In addition, 600,000 euros in cash were also found.
