Nantes: eleven members of drug wholesale network arrested, more than 300 kg seized
A large-scale police operation dismantled a criminal organisation supplying several departments in the West with narcotics.
Nantes: eleven members of drug wholesale network arrested, more than 300 kg seized
On 15 June, police officers carried out coordinated arrests in Nantes and neighbouring regions. In total, eleven people were arrested, suspected of belonging to a major drug-trafficking organisation. Eight were remanded in custody pending trial.
The charges against them include trafficking in illicit substances within an organised group, criminal conspiracy, and money laundering. These details were confirmed to Le Figaro by the prosecutor's magistrate for Nantes, Antoine Leroy.
To carry out this operation, the services deployed more than 150 officers, supported by a CRS unit and RAID personnel. The searches resulted in the seizure of 315 kg of prohibited goods, including 5.5 kg of white powder. Law enforcement also discovered ten handguns with loaded magazines, as well as a stock of nearly 800 rounds of ammunition. Technical police specialists will examine this equipment to determine whether it was used in the recent shootings that have bloodied the Nantes conurbation. Vehicles were also seized, including a German sports car and a watercraft.
The judicial investigation required eight months of work to identify those responsible for this operation, controlled from the Bellevue area. According to information reported by Ouest-France and picked up by our colleague, members of this group supplied multiple dealing points. Resupplies were carried out covertly, using motorcycles and encrypted communication platforms, within a system nicknamed "Ubershit". The operational area of this structure stretched from the Vendée coast to Finistère, passing through Sarthe.
One of the arrested persons, a young woman, caught the attention of investigators because of her unusual profile in this environment. Facing financial difficulties, she had been recruited online to turn her home into a warehouse for the traffickers.
Source: Le Figaro
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