Judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis dismantled a major drug trafficking in Saint-Ouen

The operation has led to discover more than 250 kilos of cannabis. Eight people are suspected of having managed the important deal of Deal of Charles-Schmidt.

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They were considered by the police as a “weight team”, managing both the supply and the deal of Charles-Schmidt, in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), an “oven” – Place of sale of narcotics – which generated nearly 80,000 euros of weekly turnover. Thursday 20th and Friday 21 January, eight people aged 20 to 39, including two women, all unfavorably known to police services, were arrested in two waves by the investigators of the Departmental Judicial Police Department of Seine-Saint-Denis , in Rosny-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) and Argenteuil (Val-d’Oise).

The thread, carefully prepared after seven months of investigation jointly conducted with the Office of Saint-Ouen, within the framework of a rogatory commission issued by an investigating judge of the judicial tribunal of Bobigny, allowed the Discovery of more than 250 kilos of cannabis resin and 6 kilos of grass in an apartment and a commercial vehicle. “No weapon has been found, underlines a police source, but the transaction materializes one of the most important areas in the sector, which results in the dismantling of a most profitable deal of deal of Saint-Ouen.”

Particularly well organized, the suspects retained their stock in the neighboring department of Val-d’Oise, considering that the police pressure was less than in Seine-Saint-Denis, and regularly supplied the “oven” of the city. Charles-Schmidt through couriers to bring the goods by taking transport vehicles with drivers (VTC).

Bloody conflict

Located 250 meters from Garibaldi Metro Station, on line 13, Cité Charles-Schmidt, which has 113 dwellings, was ranked among the “Priority Security Zones” in 2013, and then included in “neighborhoods”. of republican reconquest “, in 2019. In recent months, traffic has benefited from a net renewal due to” shelling “operations of the police conducted in other areas of the commune of Saint-Ouen , like the Michelet City, which resulted in a report of the clientele to Charles-Schmidt. Like other districts of the city, this city has found itself, for several years, at the heart of violent clashes between drug traffickers for the control of cannabis trade.

The bloody conflict with a certain Mehdi El Zohairi, nicknamed “unhealthy”, presented as the manager of the deal point of the city of Boute-en-Train, had led to the assassination, in August 2019, of Mohamed Gacem alias “Cyborg”, suspected of directing traffic. Had followed a long war for traffic control. In September 2020, two young men had been found dead by bullets in a cellar of the Soubise city. On February 16, 2021, a 25-year-old man had been seriously injured by bullets cordon after a 26-year-old man had been beaten to death, a few meters away, a month and a half earlier. In July 2021, the police had foiled an umpteenth account statement by calling a milf carrying, in a dog croquette bag, a Yugoslav manufacturing assault rifle.

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