French Police Arrest Alleged Drug Kingpin Known as ’Mozart of Trafficking’

It was as part of a judicial investigation opened in April 2017, almost two years ago, that these arrests were carried out. They concern, according to Le Parisien, many charges of "drug trafficking", "money laundering", "criminal conspiracy", "misuse of corporate assets" and "organized importation of drugs".

According to Europe 1: "The man was arrested in a beautiful apartment in Courbevoie, in the western Paris region, with a view of the towers of La Défense. He had already been sentenced to ten years in prison in 2011 by the Marseille criminal court in a sprawling case of drug trafficking involving around forty defendants, operating in France, Spain, Morocco and Algeria".

The search allowed the seizure at his right-hand man, one Karim N., of 20 kilograms of hashish, a weapon, 300,000 euros, watches, jewelry and various luxury items.

Boukhedimi’s nickname, "The Mozart of drug trafficking", comes from a prosecutor who gave it to him during his trial in 2011, a trial which moreover earned him a 10-year prison sentence. Europe 1 provides more details: "During the trial ten years ago, the prosecutor had pointed out that the man had been convicted for the first time at the age of two years in prison, a rare conviction for a minor. "This signs a promising career and he has not disappointed us," he had tackled in his requisition".