2:40 p.m., near the La Trébale bus stop in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), this Tuesday, June 25. Under stifling heat, three gendarmes from the intervention squad search a man’s personal belongings and carry out an identity check. Two gendarmerie trucks are positioned in the parking lot of Place Henri-Forgel.
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A few local residents posted on their window sills watch, taken aback, as men, some equipped with shields, patrol the area around the aging Trébale shopping center. Using telescopic ladders, men from the BAC (anti-crime control) climb onto the roof of these local businesses, looking for narcotics. Others carefully examine trash cans, green spaces, as well as the fuel tank flaps of parked vehicles.
Cocaine found in vehicle
The Saint-Nazaire national police took advantage of the presence of a gendarmerie squadron (EGM) to carry out a vast anti-drug operation in several sensitive areas of the naval city (la Bouletterie, Kerlédé, Prézégat, etc.). “The goal is to show ourselves and reconquer the territories which are unfortunately taken over by the neighborhood drug dealers”contextualizes a police officer. In all, around sixty police officers and gendarmes were mobilized.
At La Trébale, the police dismantled barricades made up of construction barriers, trash cans and chairs, used by traffickers to ” to prevent ” and slow down anti-drug action.
Police and soldiers discovered several hundred bottles of cocaine in a vehicle belonging to a controlled person, as well as money.
Funny scene, the drug dog having found the drugs in the offender’s car, too happy with his find, brutally closed the door on his handler’s head. Which caused a slight scratch on his forehead.
At the end of the day, two people were arrested for possession of narcotics. The drugs seized and their quantity were, this Tuesday evening, still being assessed.
