No release for Brest resident arrested in Orly with baby and cocaine eggs in his stomach

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The investigating chamber of the Rennes Court of Appeal refused to release, Friday November 15, 2024, a resident of Brest (Finistère) accused of having taken part in cocaine imports from Guyana.

Several protagonists in the Brest region were under active surveillance by investigators from April 2022: “anonymous intelligence” describing “a cocaine trafficking perpetrated by a Brest resident, his accomplices and dealers” had led to the opening of a preliminary investigation.

For several months, the police therefore tracked frequent trips to the Belgian border and Orly airport (Val-de-Marne). They had identified a man from Suriname “known for drug trafficking”.

Investigators were able to establish that the cocaine arrived by plane, from Guyana or Surinam, conveyed by mules. The money was then recovered in Brest and Rennes to fuel traffic and deal points.

Judicial information therefore accelerated in January 2024: telephone interceptions made it possible to identify a 27-year-old Guyanese man, present on a flight from Guyana, on January 17, 2024, with his wife and baby.

87 cocaine eggs

He was formerly the companion of a woman implicated in a mule management case in 2022 and had changed his flight several times to finally take the same as his ex-partner and the man from Surinam.

The investigators therefore waited for him at the airport, and he had to be taken to the hospital to expel the 87 eggs of cocaine that he had ingested before takeoff, for a total weight of 863 grammes. He explained that he had done this “for money reasons”: he should have received 5,000 euros for this trip.

Since January 24, 2024, the young father has been incarcerated, but he requested, Thursday, November 14, his release to reunite with his partner who moved to Poitiers (Vienna) with their 1-year-old granddaughter. “He did not hesitate to make this trip involving his partner and his four-month-old child,” said the attorney general about this man “already convicted for similar acts in 2017”.

“Do you realize the risk you put your partner in by returning with these products inside you? », Also criticized the advisor of the Chamber of Instruction.

The defendant – who was not represented by a lawyer during this hearing – was ultimately kept in detentionin accordance with the requisitions of the general prosecutor's office.

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