Drug trafficking: a Norman mayor and his deputy indicted for complicity

It’s a case worthy of a television series. For many years, a well-identified family in Canteleu (Seine Maritime), the Meziani, leads a lucrative drug trafficking business earning them about ten million euros a year. Indicted in April 2022 with one of his deputies, the mayor of the city, Mélanie Boulanger, is in the sights of investigators. Nevertheless, some locals support her. “I think she is an honest woman, I continue to trust her”testifies a citizen.

The investigation went up to the town hall after a utility was seized in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis). The vehicle belonged to a kebab shop whose owner was one of the deputy mayors of Canteleu. After weeks of spinning and spying, investigators overheard a threatening conversation between the mayor and two people from the Meziani clan. The Norman city councilor recognizes pressures: “I know where you live, I know where your family goes to school.” She claims not to have given in and her lawyer says he is scandalized by a charge of complicity in trafficking. She is still presumed innocent.