The scene is set in a peaceful street in the Parisian suburbs. It is unsuspectingly banal. In front of a house in Limeil-Brévannes (Val-de-Marne), a white Renault Kangoo parks, then leaves. So much for context. However, it is at this precise location that police officers from the Anti-Narcotics Office (Ofast) installed a surveillance device, in February 2019, after information from an “informant”. A network of drug traffickers would use this small utility vehicle to transport, on an industrial scale, cannabis to deal points in the northern suburbs of Paris.
From a distance, investigators observe the driver, with gloved hands, unloading bags between his vehicle and the discreet roof. From this deceptively calm starting point, investigations will little by little reveal drug trafficking innervating several of the most profitable points of sale in Seine-Saint-Denis, but also an arsenal of weapons of war worthy of ready terrorist cells. to take action.
At the end of three and a half years of investigation, the final indictment delivered at the end of October by the national court responsible for the fight against organized crime requests a criminal trial for a group of ten men, most of whom are accused of “importation of narcotics by an organized gang, drug trafficking, criminal conspiracy with a view to crimes and misdemeanors punishable by ten years of imprisonment”. This document that was able to consult The world also reveals the realities, rarely brought to light, of the functioning of drug trafficking in the Ile-de-France region.
A duo well known to specialist officers
The first two representatives of this team are those busy in the small street of Limeil-Brévannes. According to the prosecution, the man with the gloved hands, Cyril D., is the ” carrier “. The one who welcomes him in front of the gate of his pavilion, Thibault D., has the role of “nurse”. During more than a year of surveillance, Ofast agents counted the deposit of 22 bags, estimating at 525 kilos, at least, the quantity of cannabis resin having passed through the pavilion, i.e. 4,200,000 euros on resale , for a profit of 1,829,500 euros, according to the investigators’ calculation.
The geolocation beacon attached to the Kangoo details the winding route of the vehicle. On board, the ” carrier “ increases the number of meetings in underground car parks of shopping centers, where he discreetly transfers the goods into other vehicles, ordered to recharge some of the deal points, near the Pablo-Neruda stadium in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint- Denis), or even avenue Pablo-Picasso, in Nanterre.
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