fifteen people, including four minors, indicted

The operation launched Monday by nearly 250 police officers in this district of the city resulted in the arrest of 22 people and seizures of cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy, thousands of euros in cash, firearms and four vehicles.

After the dragnet, the time for justice. Fifteen people, including four minors, were indicted on Friday November 24 after being arrested during the vast operation against a drug trafficking network in Pissevin, a district of Nîmes plagued by drug sales and violence, announced in a press release the prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac.

This operation, launched Monday at dawn by nearly 250 police officers, resulted in the arrest of 22 people and seizures of cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy, thousands of euros in cash, firearms and four vehicles. At the end of the preliminary investigation, 17 of the 22 people arrested since Monday were presented to the investigating magistrates on Friday. “These are people against whom the first elements of the investigation made it possible to gather serious and consistent indications of participation at different levels of the network, from watcher to reseller, from organizer to beneficiary of the funds”explained the Nîmes prosecutor.

No connection to Fayed’s death in August

“The indictments relate distinctly, depending on the person, to the acts of drug trafficking, criminal conspiracy, possession of weapons and/or money laundering”, added Cécile Gensac. Five people were placed in pre-trial detention, one under electronic bracelet and nine under judicial supervision. In addition to the 15 indictments, the prosecutor announced the placement under assisted witness status of two other arrested people. “The investigation will now continue under the control of the investigating judge who will be able to proceed with new indictments”according to Cécile Gensac.

On Wednesday, the prosecutor indicated that the dragnet had uncovered a second network of traffickers. Three people were taken into police custody, two of whom are now incarcerated “awaiting a judgment to come soon”, according to the prosecutor. These investigations have no direct link with that into the death in Pissevin of a 10-year-old child, Fayed, fatally injured by a stray bullet at the end of August, and that of an 18-year-old young man killed at a point neighborhood deal two days later.