Did a “mole” within the police derail a vast anti-drug operation?

Were drug traffickers warned by police officers that a vast anti-narcotics operation was going to be carried out on Tuesday January 23 in Rennes in the Blosne district? This is the question that theGeneral Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), seized by the Rennes public prosecutor’s office which opened an investigation, France Bleu Armorique learned on Wednesday from the Rennes prosecutor, confirming information from the newspaper The world. Philippe Astruc, the Rennes prosecutor, speaks to France Bleu “an unacceptable dysfunction”.

Justice is now investigating suspicions of police leaks which led to this operation being canceled at the last moment. This operation, reports France Bleu, aimed Tuesday morning to intervene on numerous deal points identified in the neighborhood. It followed a long-term investigation, carried out over several months. The Rennes parquet floor evokes “a large-scale operation”with “no less than 160 police officers belonging in particular to the Raid and the BRI” who were mobilized.

Traffickers “obviously informed”

At the last moment, the system put in place was lifted on Tuesday morning, the operation canceled, “the traffickers having clearly been informed of this operation”, indicates the Rennes prosecutor. Who informed the traffickers? Who violated the secrecy of the instruction? And why ? This is what the investigation which has just been launched must clarify.

The Rennes prosecutor assures that despite “the failure of this operation”he remains determined “to fight against this trafficking which weighs heavily on the quality of life of local residents”. On Tuesday, four people were still arrested and placed in police custody for “acts of attempted homicide, violence with weapons and criminal conspiracy committed at Square de Galicie in Rennes on December 6, and on December 9, Place de Banat”. These were shots fired at a vehicle or in the air. Facts that investigators can link to drug trafficking.