French Court Orders Seizure of Moroccan Home in Major Cannabis Trafficking Case

The Angers police had seized in December 2018 a shipment of 2.5 tons of cannabis resin packaged in 80 Moroccan suitcases and stored in the trailer of a rental van. In February 2021, sixteen defendants were summoned before the court, to answer drug trafficking charges before the judges of the Angers (Maine-et-Loire) criminal court, reports Ouest France.

Before the Angers District Court, thirteen defendants had received prison sentences ranging from eighteen months suspended to six and a half years for the one suspected of being the sponsor of the international traffic. As for the other three, they were acquitted. An unsatisfactory judgment for the prosecution, which appealed for six of them.

The appeal trial took place on September 2 and 3, 2021. Absent, two of them will be retried on appeal in 2022. The public prosecutor requested eight to ten years in prison against the one who was most heavily sentenced. The confiscation of his house in Morocco as well. As for the other defendants, the magistrate demanded harsher sentences. The decision will be handed down on October 26.