A traffic of fireworks mortars has been dismantled in recent days in Amiens, franceinfo learned Wednesday, December 8 after a police source. Investigators traced a supply chain after police officers were shot on the night of September 25 to 26, in several districts of Amiens. In total, nearly 500 mortars were seized, along with firearms and drugs. Two men, aged 27 and 29, were arrested on Friday and Sunday. One of them will be tried in immediate appearance on Wednesday afternoon.
“These are 3,728 mortar shots avoided for the police”, rejoices to Franceinfo Commissioner Cyril Pizoird, deputy departmental director of public safety of the Somme. Indeed, 466 eight-shot mortars were seized during various searches carried out in vehicles, homes, and in a box.
The police also found firearms, defensive weapons, carbonated gases, brass knuckles, katana swords, but also fake police armbands, bottles of alcohol, contraband tobacco, and products. narcotics, such as two kilograms of weed, cannabis resin, cocaine, and ecstasy. “A real underground economic activity”, for Commissioner Pizoird.
“We were on two multi-card delinquents who had started their online delivery and sales business on Snapchat.”
Cyril Pizoird, deputy departmental director of public safety of the Sommeto franceinfo
It was on this social network that the traffic was quickly spotted, at the end of September, a few days after repeated episodes of urban violence during which the Amiens police officers were targeted by mortar fire, a phenomenon increasingly observed throughout the national territory.
#Urban violence from 09/2021 to #Amiensnord #Etouvie #AmiensSoutheast: our investigators & experts #Pharos️♀️ dismantled an illegal online sales network @Snapchat firework mortars
➡️2 arrests
➡️466 seized mortars, 2kg cannabis, weapons, fake police armbands, 5000 pic.twitter.com/Ix0f5zSfNx– National Police 80 (@ PoliceNat80) December 8, 2021
Coached by the Amiens prosecutor’s office, the “personal attacks” group of the departmental security of the Somme and the Pharos platform of the sub-directorate of the fight against cybercrime of the central directorate of the judicial police then managed to identify two men prosecuted today for “making pyrotechnic articles available on the market which have not been the subject of a conformity assessment procedure” and “concealed work”. 29 years old and domiciled in Longueau, the first implicated must be judged in immediate appearance this Wednesday afternoon. The second, 27 years old and living in Amiens, was placed under judicial supervision and will be tried later.