Toulouse. 120 gendarmes mobilized to dismantle drug trafficking
On June 21, 2022, after months of investigations carried out by investigators from the Toulouse Research Section and the Toulouse-Mirail Research Brigade, 120 gendarmes were mobilized to arrest 10 people aged 25 to 33. years in connection with drug trafficking.
The dismantling of this traffic mobilized last Tuesday, the GIGN antenna of Toulouse, the specialized protection platoon of the gendarmerie of Golfech, the surveillance and intervention platoons of the Haute-Garonne group, seven dog teams, the Interministerial Grouping of Toulouse and the Legal Affairs Department of Toulouse.
During this judicial operation, “large quantities of narcotics, watches and luxury leather goods, €27,000 in cash, and 4 vehicles, some of which were fitted with caches that could carry drugs or money, were seized” specify the gendarmes of the 31.
At the end of the custody, eight of them were brought before the investigating judge for an indictment for “import, acquisition, offer, possession, transfer of narcotics, laundering of drug trafficking and association of criminals”.
The prosecutor’s office requested the placement in pre-trial detention for 7 of them.
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