Suspected Cocaine Trafficker Surrenders in France After Months on the Run in Morocco

Back in France on Thursday, September 8, a 41-year-old man was arrested and then indicted for his alleged involvement in a cocaine trafficking case, reports Le Parisien. The newspaper describes a man with "graying hair, short of money and with a broken arm". The smuggler had been the victim of a car accident on August 18. He had been on the run in Morocco for eight months. Before returning to France, the quadragenarian had asked his lawyer to negotiate his surrender "by informing the French authorities of the time of his arrival".

The case in which he is involved dates back to early 2022. The police had just carried out a large-scale operation that resulted in the dismantling of a cocaine trafficking network, operating between Nice and Paris and the arrest of 15 people. The quadragenarian, for his part, had "taken care to warn all his accomplices before taking flight". This network is suspected of having sold more than 250 kilos of cocaine on the French market, in addition to several kilos of cannabis resin.