Paris: the cocaine trafficker returns from Morocco and surrenders after eight months on the run

End of the run for this cocaine carrier.

A 41-year-old man was indicted on Friday in Paris for drug trafficking.

This 40-year-old of Moroccan origin had been actively sought since last January as part of a vast investigation into trafficking which extended between the Paris region and Lyon (Rhône).

This criminal was arrested on Thursday as he got off the plane by the police who were waiting for him on a firm footing.

And for good reason, the suspect had asked his lawyer to negotiate his surrender by warning them of the time of his arrival in France.

Graying hair, short of money and with a broken arm, the smuggler was the victim of a car accident on August 18 in the Cherifian kingdom.

An event that precipitated his decision to return to France.

At the beginning of the year when the police operation was launched, he had taken care to warn all his accomplices before taking to their heels.

“But he had also destroyed his phones, explains a source familiar with the matter.

His bank account was inactive and he no longer paid the rent for his apartment in Seine-Saint-Denis”.

4 kg of cocaine worth 250,000 euros

In this traffic directed by a certain “Quatro”, the forties occupied the role of drug transporter who transported the product to the dealers.

It was on January 18, 2022 that the police carried out a search in a Parisian apartment.

Officials arrested a woman who was serving as a nanny and above all got their hands on 4 kg of white powder with an estimated value of 250,000 euros at retail resale price.

This woman was indicted and then imprisoned before being released four months later.

She fully explained her involvement in this case.

The trafficker arrested when he got off the plane was taken into custody but preferred to remain silent.

Brought before the investigating judge, he remained just as quiet.