Eight people placed in police custody in Dordogne as part of a second “clearance operation”

Throughout the week, we will see many gendarmes and police officers mobilized throughout the department. Each day, around a hundred gendarmes will participate in arrests and actions linked to drug trafficking in the department. The clearing operation in Dordogne will also concern several other aspects such as the fight against undeclared workers, pollution and even road traffic.

Six people arrested in Nontronnais

At the end of this first day of operation, six people were arrested and taken into police custody.in Nontronnais” according to Jacques-Edouard Andrault, the public prosecutor of Périgueux. These arrests are linked to a preliminary investigation opened for drug trafficking. Two people were also taken into custody as part of this operation by the Bergerac public prosecutor’s office, which did not provide further details.

Gendarmes mobilized at the Maine-et-Loire rave party this weekend

To help the Périgord gendarmes, two mobile gendarmerie squadrons were sent as reinforcement for this operation. Gendarmes from Versailles-Satory, in the Paris region, straight from Maine-et-Loire where they were mobilized to a major rave party.

Two fines issued during the first operation in Dordogne

The first net operation carried out in Bergeracois between May 2 and 4 “194 people and 142 vehicles were checked, 10 searches of cellars and common areas of homes were carried out” explains the prefecture “from a judicial point of view, two criminal fixed fines for drug consumption were issued and eight traffic offenses were also noted“.

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