Two laboratories which were used to package heroin were dismantled in apartments in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) and three people were indicted and imprisoned, we learned on Tuesday from concordant sources. The investigation carried out by the judicial police of Nancy “made it possible to dismantle a large-scale heroin cutting and packaging laboratory” and the “large quantities of narcotics, cutting product and money” seized allow ” to estimate the resale value of the products discovered at around 350,000 euros”, said the public prosecutor of Nancy, François Pérain, in a press release.
The survey begins in 2021
The case begins when in September 2021, a bailiff opens an unoccupied apartment, as part of a “procedure for unpaid rent”, said Mr. Pérain. The apartment “was not furnished” and “did not correspond at all to a place of life”, according to the prosecutor: “it was fitted out like a conditioning laboratory”, explained the deputy director of the judicial police of Nancy , Guillaume Crivelli.
Inside, only “a door unhinged and placed on two trestles” serves as a table. Investigators discover a whole set of paraphernalia used to make heroin “loaves”, including cutting product, scales and a press, “a large and characteristic tool for pressing heroin into bread”, said the prosecutor .
The three suspects charged and remanded in custody
The judicial police also found the DNA of two people in the apartment: the police set up surveillance systems allowing them to identify a third suspect and to go back to a second apartment which was also used to package heroin, according to the floor. In this second apartment, the police seized 56,490 euros in cash, a weapon and ammunition, nearly 6 kg of pure heroin and 17 kg of cutting products, as well as all the equipment necessary for packaging the heroin.
“The singularity of this case is that we usually come across nannies and resale networks in neighborhoods or cities, but here we are at the very top of the network”, underlined Mr. Crivelli, adding that the investigation would continue. The three suspects, one of whom was already serving a six-month prison sentence for domestic violence, were indicted on Saturday and remanded in custody.