Trial Begins for 34 in Major French Drug Ring Case, Alleged Kingpin Flees to Morocco

A year after the dismantling of the drug trafficking and the closure of the lucrative drug dealing point on the Michelet Avenue in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) - numbers 86 and 92 of the avenue, which housed this cannabis and cocaine supermarket -, the 34 people (lookouts, managers, alleged money launderers) arrested as part of this case will be tried before the Bobigny judicial court, reports Actu.fr. The trial opens this Monday and will last three weeks. It will take place in the absence of the alleged head of the trafficking who left for Morocco in January 2021, reports Le Parisien.

Several police operations carried out over a year resulted in the dismantling of this network. Three waves of arrests took place from June 2020 to April 2021. Presented as one of the most flourishing in Saint-Ouen, the drug dealing point on Michelet Avenue was generating up to 1.4 million euros per month.