A “vast drug trafficking” has been dismantled in the city of Beausoleil in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), welcomed this Friday, September 10, the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, who praised an important work military policemen.
“Our fight against drugs is total”, also supported, on the social network Twitter, the boss of the place Beauvau.
According to the details communicated by the newspaper The Dispatch, it is concretely eight people, suspected of belonging to a vast network of drug sales, who were arrested, a week earlier, on September 4.
A vast drug trafficking was dismantled in the Beausoleil city in Montauban thanks to an important work of the gendarmes of Toulouse and Montauban.
Our fight against drugs is total.https://t.co/NUqoMVFPMG
– Gerald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) September 10, 2021
Arrests made during a police operation described by our colleagues as “spectacular”, triggered immediately after the interception of a “go fast” (large-capacity vehicle to transport drugs at high speed, Editor’s note) in Metz, in Moselle, containing 3 kg of cocaine.
About sixty gendarmes mobilized
The vehicle was driven by a Montalbanais returning from the Netherlands. In addition to cocaine, the sixty or so mobilized gendarmes also discovered, during searches carried out in Montauban, “500 grams of cocaine more, 11 kg of cannabis resin, 300 grams of herb, 69 feet of cannabis, 15,000 euros in cash. , 95,000 euros of bank seizures, 7 vehicles, 600 ammunition of various calibers, chargers ”, according to the public prosecutor, Laurent Czernik, quoted by La Dépêche.
Since the beginning of the year, drug seizures have exploded in France. In the first six months of the year, some 57 tonnes of cannabis were recovered by the police. That is 37% more than last year, at the same period, had welcomed Gérald Darmanin.