It was a discreet investigation which led to “a resounding raid carried out in the world of narcotics”. Between mid-September and Tuesday November 12, 2024, the gendarmes arrested around twenty people across Indre-et-Loire, mainly suspected of engaging in drug trafficking. « multiproduits ».
According to our information, confirmed by a source close to the investigation, the investigating judge Silvere Zearo, responsible for leading the investigations, has made ten indictments in this case. Seven are in pre-trial detention at the time of writing.
Drugs, guns, cash and a sports car
The system deployed on site, from Lochois to Amboisie, via the departments of Indre and Cher, did not escape certain neighbors of the targeted addresses. Some were moved by The New Republic, particularly after noting the significant presence of internal security forces at the foot of the ramparts of Loches on November 4.
Searches, carried out in the royal city, in Beaulieu-lès-Loches, Bourges, Châteauroux, Nazelles-Négron and Azay-sur-Indre allowed the discovery of heroin, cannabis resin, cocaine and LSD blotters. “A handgun, twenty-three cell phones, several thousand euros and a sports car”complete the inventory of seizures, announces the departmental gendarmerie group in a press release sent to the press.
New searches took place on Tuesday November 5, 2024, in rue du Château in Loches.
© (Photo NR, Julien Lucas)
Up to sixty gendarmes
This large-scale operation mobilized up to sixty soldiers on the ground, including the GIGN branch in Joué-lès-Tours and two specialized gendarmerie protection platoons, elite units assigned in particular to the surveillance of nuclear power plants. .
The four waves of arrests made it possible to bring to the ground a vast trafficking of “multi-product” narcotics, between September and November 12, 2024.
© (National gendarmerie photo)
In parallel with the “narcotics” component of this investigation, drugs – Subutex, an opioid prescribed as part of addiction treatment but diverted from its use – resold on the black market, but also 2.5 kg of tobacco and around fifty puffs, these scented cigarettes that teenagers grab, were confiscated by the Loches company during the various searches in recent weeks in the royal city.
With the exception of medicines, “this is a trafficking operation established for several months in Lochois, managed by a young person from the town who resold illegally imported rolling tobacco and puffs purchased on online sites. lines abroad »specifies Captain Gilles Gheysen, second in command of the Loches company.
This Wednesday, ten “objectives” targeted by investigators for several months were brought before the courts. Among them, notorious Touraine traffickers, already convicted in the past.
Julien Coquet and Julien Lucas, with Ph.H.
