August 21, 2023 at 5:00 p.m.
The search revealed 500 g of cannabis resin in the laundry basket and 38 g of cocaine in the electrical panel of the nursing home. – Drawing
Nicknamed the Grandpa Dealer, a 75-year-old man sold drugs in the Ehpad where he was on parole.
In Caen, on March 8, 2023, astonishing news reached the anti-narcotics unit: from an Ehpad de la Folie-Couvrechef, an almost public notoriety of cannabis and cocaine trafficking was established. However, for health reasons, a 75-year-old man, Faiez Rezk, had been placed in this establishment on parole in mid-December 2022. Already convicted of drug trafficking in 2016, he had reoffended in 2021.
Hideouts, videos and wiretaps
The pensioner is immediately placed under telephone tapping, and his comings and goings are closely monitored by “stashes”. It quickly becomes apparent that some of the traffic takes place in his room, where he receives various and varied people who worry the other residents.
It appears that Faiez Rezk also operates from the small bar across from the retirement home.
The search is facilitated by telephone tapping, where the old man asked a friend, aged 40, how to open an electrical panel. On June 12, the search led without great difficulty to the discovery of 500 g of cannabis resin in the laundry basket of the room, and 38 g of cocaine in the electrical panel of the establishment.
On Monday, June 12, the one who is nicknamed the Grandpa Dealer and who denies the facts with which he is accused despite the evidence obtains a legal dismissal in order to prepare his defense. He remains in pre-trial detention until the date of the dismissal, while his friend, who rendered him some services, remained free but placed under strict, respected judicial control.
The dealer’s friend saved by wiretapping
In remand for immediate appearance on Monday August 14 before the Caen Criminal Court, Faiez Rezk persists in denying everything en bloc, swears his total innocence. According to him, he would have been deceived by his visitors, who would have hidden their goods at his home.
On the other hand, the wiretaps have amply proved that his friend, present at the hearing, was not involved in the traffic at all. Indeed, he only helped him to cut the cannabis into pieces and bought some from him from time to time. Better still, the tapping revealed that this friend advised him on the contrary to calm down and stop trafficking.
Faiez Rezk was sentenced to five years in prison with a committal order. The forties, he inherits only eight months in prison fully accompanied by a probationary sentence of two years. He will typically have the obligations to treat his addiction to cannabis, to work and to pay the sums due to the Public Treasury.
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