It all started with a name balanced, during a correctional hearing, by a man tried for a case of drug trafficking in Le Havre . The accused delivers the name of his supplier, also the seller. As soon as the information reaches the ears of the police, they arrest in extremis the individual, an 18-year-old Moroccan, placed in the administrative detention center of Oissel to be escorted back to the border. They also conduct a wave of arrests at the Rond-Point in Le Havre on August 18. Against the backdrop of drug trafficking, a series of brawls with knives is noted.
10.5 kilos in seven months
In police custody, the relatives of the protagonists of the traffic are interviewed. During a search, only € 900 were discovered. Heard, the Moroccan supplier delivers the name of the network head and one of his lieutenants. The latter, a 22-year-old Algerian, will be exonerated, but kept in detention for other similar cases: he is wanted by the Spanish authorities. During his hearings, the Moroccan supplier explains that in seven months he sold, on behalf of the network head, at the Rond-Point, 10.5 kilos of cannabis, for a turnover of 105,000 €. This head of the network, a 27-year-old Algerian, is already imprisoned in the Havre remand center.
His subordinate carried out “airdrops” within the prison to provide him with laptops and drugs. Because the head of the network not only organized traffic at the Rond-Point, but also in the penitentiary center. In total, he has managed to sell 2 kilos of cannabis per week and a few grams of coke since March 2019. Traffic that he set up four months after arriving in France. The police access his Facebook account. They discover photos of the making of homemade weapons intended to attack detainees, according to the police. They come across maps of the remand center in order to locate the right places for parachuting. As well as the details of the traffic organization at the roundabout.
While awaiting trial on September 23 , the two remain in detention.