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The search last Thursday in the Benniks brothers’ bakery is the result of several months of investigation by gendarmes from the Villefranche-de-Rouergue Research Brigade. Six people were indicted.
A week after the military raid on the village of Cajarc, we know more about this major gendarmerie operation. It all started in January 2023, investigators suspected drug trafficking between Villefranchois and Cajarc.
Trafficking and hidden work
In autumn 2023, a judicial investigation is opened by the Rodez Judicial Court, for trafficking in narcotics, carrying out concealed work, money laundering and non-proof of resources. The investigation is entrusted to the Villefranche-de-Rouergue Research Brigade with the support of the Interministerial Gendarmerie Research Group of Toulouse.
For several months, surveillance and investigations were carried out within the framework of the rogatory commission. “They led the investigating judge and the gendarmes of the research brigade to decide to carry out the arrests at the beginning of May, at the most appropriate time,” indicates the Villefranche gendarmerie.
60 gendarmes deployed
This is how nearly sixty gendarmes from Aveyron and Lot carried out several searches at the suspects’ homes, but also at the Benniks brothers’ bakery, which is at the heart of the case. The company of Figeac, CNICG of Gramat, gendarmerie group of RODEZ, GIRG 31) were engaged at the arrest sites. Two dogs specializing in drug searches supported investigators during the searches.
Six indictments and three people imprisoned
Six individuals were arrested in Cajarc (46) and Villefranche-de-Rouergue (12). Presented to an investigating judge in Rodez, the individuals are all indicted. Three of them are placed under judicial supervision, the other 3 are in pre-trial detention, after a debate before the judge of Liberties and Detention.
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During the searches, the soldiers discovered and seized a little more than 200 grams of cocaine, a little more than 500 grams of cannabis resin, smartphones, two SUV-type vehicles and 35,000 euros in cash. Around twenty people implicated as consumers in this drug trafficking were also interviewed during the legal operation.
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