It was in a box located in Square Molière in Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis), in the sensitive district of Clos Saint-Lazare, that the police officers of the anti-crime brigade (BAC) of Stains seized 700 kg of resin on Tuesday. cannabis, hidden in a multitude of overflowing sports bags. An astronomical quantity for field police personnel.
Their investigation made it possible to target the comings and goings around this storage point. A suspect was opening the door of the premises when the police arrested him. He is a 35-year-old man, already known for various cases of possession and transport of narcotics, as well as acts of violence, fraud and counterfeiting.
The man was taken into custody in the premises of the judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis, in charge of the case. The investigation has only just begun to trace this network which supplied cannabis resale outlets well beyond Stains.
Last year, the Ministry of the Interior identified more than 200 deal points in Seine-Saint-Denis
These 700 kg of drugs represent a market value of 4.5 million euros according to the method of valuation established by the French Observatory of drugs and addictive tendencies (OFDT), on which the customs administration is based.
However, this is a drop in the bucket for Seine-Saint-Denis, which has the largest number of points of sale in France: last year, the Ministry of the Interior listed 205. Some “ovens” in Saint-Ouen, such as the one on avenue Michelet dismantled in 2021, can generate more than 1.4 million euros per month.
The record in this area in Île-de-France was beaten in 2020 in Villepinte with a seizure of 4.8 tonnes of cannabis carried out by the Anti-Narcotics Office, a service specializing in serious crime. At the departmental level, the “stups” group of the judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis which was investigating a network with ramifications in the Hauts-de-Seine had got their hands on 430 kg of cannabis resin in a box in Asnières -sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine). Outside the Paris region, a quantity identical to that found in Stains had been seized in February 2022 in Creil (Oise).