two to eight years in prison for drug traffickers
Trafficking in detained narcotics, weapons and criminal association: seven men were sentenced on Friday in Toulouse to terms ranging from two to eight years in prison, two years after a series of arrests.
A total of 16 people were arrested in June 2020 in Toulouse and Saint-Tropez (Var), during a major operation against drug trafficking in the heart of the popular district of Izards in the north of the Pink City, generating daily thousands of euros.
Worked on Snapchat
The Toulouse Criminal Court sentenced the other defendants on Friday to 30 months in prison with six months suspended. The prosecution had requested Thursday sentences ranging from nine months to nine years in prison. The investigation revealed that this network, very structured and promoting itself on the Snapchat social network, had returned hundreds of kilos of cannabis, cocaine and synthetic drugs for months.
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Several firearms and around fifty kilos of drugs had been seized during the searches, as well as around 90,000 euros in cash. Following its dismantling, a series of settling of scores had bloodied Toulouse, including a shooting at Izards in August 2020, where a man was shot and two others injured.