French Police Intercept 96 Kilos of Moroccan Cannabis in High-Speed Bust

A successful investigation. The Chartres public prosecutor’s office had entrusted the Orléans research section (SR) with a flagrante delicto investigation for drug trafficking following the discovery of "160 kilos" of cannabis resin in one of the two abandoned vehicles on the A10, reports AFP. Two successive accidents had occurred on the motorway. The investigations proved fruitful. The gendarmerie discovered that "a group of individuals from the Paris region" regularly carries out "convoys to transport narcotics from southern France to [...] Mantes-la-Jolie, in the Yvelines".

The gendarmes managed to intercept a new convoy. A "go fast" convoy of two vehicles transporting 96 kilos of cannabis resin was intercepted in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday on the A10 motorway in the Loiret and the Yvelines, the Orléans SR said on Friday, adding that the three occupants of the vehicles were heading towards the Paris region. They were arrested "in flagrante delicto" by the GIGN, in Gidy, in the Loiret, then Allainville, in the Yvelines. "The investigation continues as part of a judicial investigation opened today at the Chartres judicial court," the gendarmerie said.