Cocaine trafficking involving Baggists from Roissy dismantled – Liberation

A traffic of cocaine Operating for several months between France and Brazil and involving Baggters from Parisian Airport Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle was dismantled and seven people were indicted, we learned this Saturday, June 7, from concordant sources.

The operation « Illustrates the ability of criminal organizations to bribe airport agents, targeting in particular unknown intermediate executives of justice », specifies the gendarmerie.

Eight arrests took place on June 3 in Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Seine-et-Marne, Val-de-Marne, Val-d’Oise and Seine-Saint-Denis as part of an operation that mobilized 105 gendarmes and several specialized services, according to this source.

The arrests intervened within the framework of a judicial information opened on January 22 by the prosecution of the specialized interregional jurisdiction (JIRS) of Paris, in particular for drug trafficking in organized gang, association of criminals and laundering of drug trafficking, according to a judicial source.

Seven of the people arrested were indicted on Friday, according to this source. Two of them were placed in pre -trial detention, four under judicial control and the last requested a delayed debate before the liberty and detention judge.

At the end of 2024, two cards containing 45 cocaine breads, a total of 50 kg, were discovered during an airport security check by the Air Transport Research Section (SRTA), said the gendarmerie, confirming daily news the Parisian.

After identifying this drug transport from Brazil to Charles-de-Gaulle airport, an investigation was entrusted to the SRTA to determine the origin of traffic.

The establishment of special survey techniques has made it possible to identify the extent of the network, active in particular in Seine-Saint-Denis and relying on several employees and executives of an airport company to leave 20 to 50 kg of cocaine per month, according to the gendarmerie.

« News has often accustomed us About the mules But not very little about airport complicities which however are much sought after by criminal organizations ”, underlined an official of the SRTA.

“This is what is extremely interesting in this file, it is that we manage to involve executives and handlers. Usually, it is the handlers who are arrested and it is difficult to go back to executives who benefit from the protection of the airport ecosystem ”, adds the upper officer.

Nearly 500,000 euros in criminal assets and just over 100,000 euros in cash were seized during the operation carried out on June 3, as well as five vehicles, a house, luxury items (clothes, perfumes, jewelry, etc.) and a handgun.