The scene takes place on a quiet street in a Paris suburb. It’s cluelessly banal. A white Renault Kangoo parks in front of a house in Limeil-Brévannes (Val-de-Marne) and then drives away. So much for context. But it was precisely at this point that police officers from the Anti-Drug Office (Ofast) installed a surveillance device in February 2019 following tips from an “informant”. A network of drug traffickers would use this small commercial vehicle to transport cannabis on an industrial scale to deal points in the northern suburbs of Paris.

From a distance, investigators observe the driver unloading bags between his vehicle and the discreet roof with gloved hands. From this deceptively calm starting point, the investigation will gradually uncover that the drug trade fuels several of the most profitable outlets in Seine-Saint-Denis, but also an arsenal of weapons of war worthy of willing terrorist cells.

At the end of a three-and-a-half year investigation, the final charges were brought at the end of October national jurisdiction responsible for combating organized crime is applying for criminal proceedings against a group of ten men, most of whom are accused of “the importation of drugs in an organized gang, drug trafficking, criminal conspiracy to commit crimes and misdemeanors punishable by a prison sentence of ten years”. This document that could be consulted The world also reveals the rarely exposed reality of drug trafficking in the Ile-de-France region.

A duo well known to the special officers

The first two representatives of this team are those who work in the small street of Limeil-Brévannes. According to the prosecution, it is the man with the gloved hands, Cyril D. “Carrier”. The one who greets him at the gate of his pavilion, Thibault D., has the role of “Nurse”. During more than a year of surveillance, the Ofast agents counted the deposit of 22 bags, equivalent to a value of at least 525 kilos, with the amount of cannabis resin that passed through the pavilion d for the investigators’ calculation.

The geolocation signal attached to the Kangoo describes the vehicle’s winding route in detail. On board, the “Carrier” increases the number of meetings in underground parking lots of shopping centers, where he discreetly transfers the goods to other vehicles to recharge some of the deal points near the Pablo Neruda Stadium from Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis)or even Avenue Pablo-Picasso in Nanterre.

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