In 2019, agents of the harbor had been nevertheless in the act with 140 kilos of cocaine. Two years later, eleven men must appear in Rennes, on Monday.
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DOCKERS Father and son, uncle and nephew, sports equipment agent in the city of Nantes, coatings, small crooking in the resale of watches and cars, Ruined Restaurateur, cigarette seller and borer of Chichas in black Guadeloupe, a company manager in the sale of spare parts in Martinique, unemployed at the RSA … A total of eleven men, aged 35 to 56, must be judged for five days in Rennes, from Monday, October 18th. One of them, as a mandate since March 2020.
The instruction open to the Specialized Interregional Jurisdiction (JIRS) of Rennes has indeed led to the indications and then to the referrals before the court of “four dockers, five intermediaries, in contact with the dockers and traffickers – the sector of The flow being largely in the Paris region, and two shippers from cocaine from the West Indies, “says Philippe Astruc, Attorney of the Republic of Rennes.
Two years earlier, October 14, 2019 at 7:30 am, somewhere on the Fourth Port of France, in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), at the Montoir-de-Bretagne terminal, two dockers, then older 33 and 39, discuss in a Peugeot Partner. For weeks, they have taken a thousand precautions to discretion. They do not know it, but the car is sounded and the whole brigade of the narcotics of the Judicial Police of Nantes is on the bridge.
The search and intervention brigade (BRI) is there too, but in withdrawal. None of the many police officers mobilized has crossed the grids surrounding the port area, which extends over 1,460 hectares. “Impossible”, explains close to the file, two years later. “The harbor is worse than a city. If a policeman puts one foot, everyone knows it. It’s an ultra-efficient world.”
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After months of placases, hundreds of hours of listening and many sleepless nights, the investigators await them a firm foot, and the “container”. On paper, it contains machine tools, an old generator and copper coils. But they know it: the “box” is also charged in cocaine.
Two information led them to spend forty-eight hours in Saint-Nazaire without moving a CIL. First, one of the two men in full discussion in the Partner contacted his “second woman” two days earlier. At the end of the line, she found it “weird”. “If Monday night you have no news of me, you’re not ready to see me again …” He told him, without more explanation.
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