About twenty police officers, including a team from the Nancy light dog unit, entered the Sainte-Barbe district on Wednesday afternoon. “We act on request of the public prosecutor of Sarreguemines, to check identities, vehicle interiors, cellars and common areas of buildings,” said Freyming-Merlebach police commander Eric Louis.
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A hundred people checked
The police, national and municipal, walked the entire rue de la Croix, the district’s main artery, as well as the perpendicular axes: rue Hertor-Berlioz, rue des Ponts or even de la Concorde. About sixty vehicles, or about a hundred people in total, were checked. The two dog handlers entered the cellars and common areas of the buildings of the landlord CDC Habitat with a dog trained to smell narcotics.
In the end, no amount of the drug was found. On the other hand, two vehicles were immobilized for lack of technical control, a motocross parked in the common parts was seized, five reports for traffic tickets were drawn up.
But, for the police, the aim of this operation was above all to occupy the land, in an area where incivility and trafficking still exist, despite the recent move of a playground which had become a place meeting of drug sellers and consumers.
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