The fight against drug trafficking also in Alès. Last night, a device set up by the Alès police station was deployed in the Cévennes district. A total of twenty officials including municipal police, the ferry and reinforcements from Nîmes. A punch operation which ended with an arrest of a dealer, a minor consumer and some fixed fines (5 in total at 150 €). The goal: to put continuous pressure on the traffic and its users.
We are here and we will always be there
We heard an arah in the distance (alert cry from the lookouts), put out a brazier to warm up the dealers (dealers) – the nights are starting to be cold – and a few consumers who quickly left the scene in view of the forces. order, no massive seizure of product but the operation continued that night beyond the Cévennes district alone. Significantly, the arrested dealer is not a local. He lives in the south of the Gard department. For the curator Florent Ravel. “local traffickers find it increasingly difficult to recruit locally“, the sign that”the police are doing their job and that the young people with the arrests which multiply and the convictions to follow realize that the game is clearly not worth the candle“.
No massive seizure but a lasting presence of the police
The goal of the operation last night in Alès was not so much to seize large quantities (the dealers have only a few products each time and refuel as they go) but to mark a continuous presence on field. An operation of “bullying“on the dealers but also on the consumers. 5 of them had the bad idea to try to provide and come face to face with the device. They left each with a fine of 150 € and without product .
Hit the whole chain – from the reseller to the consumer and in the long term. What has set fire to the powders, recently, “the traffickers in the Cévennes who did not hesitate to cut”powering streetlights across a whole section of the neighborhood to try to hide their nocturnal activities“explains Jean Rampon, the sub-prefect of Alès.”No question of giving up an inch of ground “. This operation, which is not a first, will continue: “It’s about showing that we are there and that we will always be thereThis continued pressure would give very significant results in terms of arrests and seizure of products or money.
– L Labastrou