It is a place well known to Montluçonnais as a point of drug trafficking, Quai Louis Blanc and around. And three men, a 24-year-old and two 21-year-olds, were tried on Tuesday, March 29, for alleged trafficking in cannabis resin and cocaine, between February 24, 2020 and June 3, 2020. The file arrived in front of the correctional court of Montluçon after two years of judicial information.
The three defendants deny any involvement
The oldest, presented as the leader, denies all the facts. Yes, he appears well in police surveillance. ” Corn I don’t see the transactions of narcotics, including those in which his little brother was addicted.
The telephones, the scales, the necessary to sell the narcotic at retail, found at his mother’s, are not his either. “I don’t live there,” he adds. The €995 found on him during his arrest came from a scooter sale:
I can justify them, but I don’t have the papers.
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Whoever is designated as his deputy is on the same line of conduct. People who approached him asked him tourist information, addresses. When we see him pass something into the hands of another, it must have been ” a lighter or something to eat ».
The latter also appears to be active in police investigations. It is not so, says the defendant. The President asks:
Are all those people lying who say they bought cocaine from you??
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“Yes”, replies the person concerned, who served fifteen days of pre-trial detention in this case. It’s seven months for the designated head and five months for the designated deputy.
Up to two years in prison required
The prosecutor requires three years in prison including two years suspended probation for the oldest and two years in prison including one year suspended probation for the other two. He also asks for a ban on appearing in the department of Allier for two years.
Only the oldest has a mention in the criminal record, a conviction for traffic offenses subsequent to the facts for which he was tried on Wednesday March 29.
Penalties: up to fourteen months in prison
The court found them all guilty, and sentenced the oldest to two years in prison, ten months of which was suspended for two years. The youngest are sentenced to two years, one of which is suspended for two years. All will carry out the firm part under electronic bracelet and left free, as they had come, from the court.
Anti-narcotics operation at La Verrerie and Quai Louis-Blanc in Montluçon (June 2019)
Seher Turkmen
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