From the “start-up nation”, they retained the idea that the quality of service was essential, that respecting delivery commitments was fundamental, that marketing was worth a thousand words. They noted that the self-employed model offered promises of profitability, efficiency or agility, as we could hear management experts profess. So, they invented a high-quality offer, with the evocative name, Sinaloa Puro, a reference to a Mexican cartel, available on WhatsApp or Signal messaging, to which more than 2,000 customers throughout the Ile-de-France have subscribed. France and also in Loiret, Oise or Marne. The service ? Home delivery of cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy or MDMA in less than twenty-four hours. With promotions for the most loyal. And products offered on a tailor-made menu, depending on intensities and qualities.
The headquarters of this start-up was established on the second floor, apartment 9, of 124, avenue Joffre, in Epinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis). Where, according to the police, the preparation of orders took place, before the deliveries themselves.
“You are like a delivery man who delivers pizza or Japanese”summarizes magistrate Patrick Gerbault, at the beginning of December 2023, addressing the five young men, supposed members of the organization, summoned to the bar of the Bobigny judicial court.
Orders were grouped by geographical areas then entrusted to delivery people, the addresses sent by WhatsApp. Fund movements were recorded in small spiral notebooks found by investigators. Amounts, types of delivery, postal codes, addresses… “We have salespeople, accounting, rather high prices, all this generates a lot of cash”, notes the magistrate. Lists of customer contacts with such value that they are sometimes resold or rented between traffickers.
The main organizer of the network was identified, but he fled to Spain. His two lieutenants, responsible for managing the chip on the telephone number 07-45-46-45-27, were arrested, placed in pre-trial detention, tried and sentenced to five and three and a half years in prison. At one of them, investigators seized Vuitton and Cerruti bags, Louboutin shoes, Balenciaga and Dior products as well as Rolex watches.
The other side of the “start-up nation” : a youth perfectly integrated, not into republican society, that which theoretically promises equality and fraternity at the fronts of town halls, but into the consumer society, that which appears in advertisements on the backs of city buses. RATP or in the stories of Dubai influencers and footballers.
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