Miscellaneous – Justice | Marseille: arrested with more than 900 cartons of cigarettes
The anonymous but precise intelligence fell on December 1 on the offices of the North Division’s anti-cigarette smuggling unit.
Two weeks later, the police from the “cigarette group” were able to confirm the quality during a spinning in Saint-André (16th). Badr-Eddine, in his fifties, unloaded before their eyes a good ten boxes filled with cartridges of cigarettes with Karim, a friend who “arrived there“.
The fifty-year-old duo were immediately arrested with 916 cartridges of contraband Marlboro. That is to say more than 9,000 packets of “cigarettes” that the main suspect indicated to have acquired in Lyon € 1,350 per box of cartridges.
In front of President Marty, who judged him on Friday in immediate appearance, the defendant assured resell his boxes € 1,500. “You may have minimized a little”, doubt the magistrate. “He decided to benefit from national solidarity without contributing to it“, accuses the prosecutor Tassin, recalling that Badr-Eddine, father of 6 children, benefits from social assistance. And to request a one-year suspension and a € 5,000 fine against him, as well as for his accomplice, a fine of € 1,500, partly with a suspended sentence.
In defense, Mes Latimier and Khemaicia insist on the profiles of their clients, fathers of families who have not lost their jobs only recently and do not have profiles of bosses. But if Karim gets away with a € 1,500 suspended fine, Badr-Eddine gets 18 months in prison with, in addition to the required fine, a committal warrant.