The French police found 70 kilos of cannabis during a search of the private house this Sunday Jamilah Habsaoui, the mayor of Avallon, a city in eastern France with about 7,000 residents. The gendarmes found the drugs in the councilwoman’s house, but investigative sources suspect that the person who kept the drugs in the house was one of her brothers, who lives in the same house and has engaged in drug trafficking in the past, according to the French television channel BFMTV.
According to the broadcaster’s information France 3, Habsaoui’s brother collected cannabis without his consent. However, according to the news agency, investigators conducted another search at the mayor’s usual workplace. France Press.
The action, which is part of the XXL Clean Space campaign to combat drug trafficking and in which the French President is personally involved, Emmanuel Macronled to the arrest of seven people, including the city councilor herself and two of her brothers.
Such raids have taken place in several major French cities since March 18, especially in the Paris region as well as in Marseille, Lyon and Lille. But also in smaller cities such as Clermont-Ferrand, Besançon and Dijon. Avallon is located a few dozen kilometers from the Burgundian city. The official tally of these operations at the end of March amounted to 1,738 arrests, 150 kg of drugs and 2.4 million euros seized.
Jamilah Habsaoui, 45, was elected mayor of Avallon in 2021 as a candidate of the Socialist Party (PS) and also holds a position as a regional deputy in the Yonne Regional Council.