jusqu’à 4 ans de prison après la découverte de 1 100 pieds de cannabis prêts à être plantés en forêt de Saumos
Six individuals, two French and four Albanians – three are absent – were summoned before the Bordeaux Criminal Court this Friday, November 25. These budding farmers obviously did not have a green thumb since a first seed had failed.
Mystery of the file: recruitment. None had any ties to the Southwest. A defendant prefers to remain silent and even disputes the evidence of his arrest at the scene of the wild plantation. Another admits to having given orders but without directing. One explains that he was recruited as a tomato planter!
“With fast-growing plants, they planned several shoots a year, not hesitating to occupy the public domain. It was a well thought-out operation”, demonstrates the first deputy prosecutor Mathieu Fohlen, by making the chronology of the trips to the Netherlands to find seeds and plants and the purchase of equipment.
“Your decision must possess their audacity and perseverance in their plans,” he found out in a play on words, demanding a two-year suspended sentence for the two who did only “handling and manual labor” – they will be sentenced to 24 months in prison, 18 of which are suspended – to 4 and 5 years against the two Frenchmen and the two Albanians, suspected of having acquired the feet.
“The Forced Link”
Me Bérangère Pageot defended Francis Muller, who does not speak Albanian “so he is not going to set up this association of criminals. He’s just a bad gardener. “The initial operation did not go to completion, this shows a certain amateurism”, argues Me Jennifer Prigent, lawyer for Vilson Shahaj, the only Albanian present, who charges the French.
He makes holes, he bivouacs, he has no money on him but he would be the team leader? It is rather a hair that fell in the Albanian mess, the forced link in this file. The arrest was a relaxation, he couldn’t take it anymore to be manipulated, carried around, presented as a pass. »
“He makes holes, he bivouacs, he has no money on him but he would be the team leader? “, indignant Me Alexandre Novion, “converted” to the sincerity of his client Arnaud Morel. “It is rather a hair that fell in the Albanian mess, the forced link in this file. His qualities as an ordinary man worked against him. The arrest was a relaxation, he couldn’t take it anymore to be manipulated, carried around, presented as a pass. »