The deputy mayor PS of Canteleu (Seine-Maritime) placed in police custody Friday during an anti-narcotics crackdown, has been released.
No charge retained
“Hasbi Colak was released [samedi]. No charges were brought against him. his personal belongings and seals were returned to him, “said his lawyer, Me Jérémy Kalfon, on Sunday.
According to the lawyer of the elected, “when you are part of a municipal team, you are in contact with many citizens, and among them there may be some who are less honest than others. contacts who were able to put the chip in the ear of the investigators (…) The police officers, through their questions, wanted more to close doors than to open them “.
“My client is worried about the fuss that there has been around this affair and the proportions that this affair has taken. Spending 36 hours in police custody is always trying,” he added.
Hasbi Colak, deputy in charge of economic development, businesses and employment at the town hall of Canteleu, near Rouen, had been taken into custody as part of an investigation for drug trafficking and criminal association.
Twenty arrests in total
The mayor of Canteleu Mélanie Boulanger, PS mayor of the city since 2014, vice-president of the metropolis of Rouen and former head of the PS-EELV list for the regional in Normandy, had also been placed in police custody on Friday morning and handed over free on Saturday.
Friday, the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office had indicated that the people had been arrested and placed in police custody “on rogatory commission from an investigating judge from Bobigny, seized of a judicial investigation opened since September 2019 of the heads of drug trafficking and criminal association “.
One million euros in assets, including sums placed in bank accounts, 375,000 euros in cash as well as vehicles, were seized during searches carried out on Friday, according to this source familiar with the matter.
In addition to this sum, the searches allowed investigators to discover 15 kg of heroin, 25 kg of cutting product and firearms, said Bobigny public prosecutor Eric Mathais on Friday.
In total, nineteen people were arrested on Friday morning, fifteen in Seine-Maritime and four in Seine-Saint-Denis. Police custody can last up to 96 hours, in the case of organized drug trafficking.
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