Toulouse: at 50, the nanny hides cannabis
During a police operation, a dog specializing in narcotics marked an apartment in mid-December in Bagatelle. Its occupant has just been sentenced to 9 months in prison by the Toulouse criminal court.
In mid-December, the Left Bank police carried out a search operation for narcotics in a building located rue de la Gironde, in the Bagatelle district of Toulouse. On the spot, the canine brigade dog was quick to mark an apartment inhabited by a 50-year-old man. The latter then immediately recognized that he had narcotics. 150 grams of weed and 500 grams of cannabis resin were actually found in a safe. The 50-year-old was arrested and placed in detention pending his comparison before the Toulouse criminal court.
Facing her judges, the nanny tries to explain herself: “Young people have offered me several times to keep drugs for them. At first I refused but they put pressure on me. As it is a neighborhood where there are a lot of settling of accounts, I ended up accepting. They dropped off a safe and asked me to make duplicate keys. I don’t know anyone in the neighborhood, I receive my sons, I was afraid of reprisals. I swear to you that I never accepted money! I’ve done stupid things in the past, but I’ve never been involved in drug trafficking. Today, I try to get out of it through work. I shouldn’t have given in. »
For the defense: “He is above all a victim”
“And you don’t mind having your kids home with all that drugs?” “, is surprised the president of the court. The defendant lowers his head in response.
“It is his responsibility to be firm. It probably allowed him to find a certain place in the neighborhood. He is someone who has already been convicted twelve times. He gave in to the facility by accepting! “, Argues the public prosecutor before requiring one year of imprisonment with continued detention.
In defense, Me Brice Zanin tries to find the arguments to reduce his sentence: “Do you sincerely think that he could really say no? He even wrote to Toulouse Métropole Habitat to change accommodation”, the lawyer’s argument. “When you are a nanny, you are above all a victim. You must absolutely take into account the context of this difficult district! “.
After deliberation, this man is finally condemned to nine months of imprisonment with detention in detention.