As part of an investigation led by a Bastia investigating judge, five people were indicted at the end of the week. Three of them were placed in pre-trial detention.
Five people have been charged as part of a judicial investigation opened by the Bastia public prosecutor’s office on charges of criminal association and drug trafficking.
Three of them were placed in pre-trial detention, the other two were left free, under judicial supervision, said the public prosecutor, Jean-Philippe Navarre, in a press release.
“This procedure aimed to dismantle a drug trafficking network supplying the surroundings of the Bastia conurbation as well as certain inmates at the Borgo penitentiary centre”, indicates the head of the Bastia public prosecutor’s office.
In this case relating to narcotics, opened following a preliminary investigation conducted since October 2023, all the suspected persons were arrested on Monday June 24 in the Bastia region.
Qualified “important” by Jean-Philippe Navarre, “the judicial police operation which mobilized 110 soldiers from the gendarmerie region of Corsica led to the arrest of around ten people and, during various searches, to the seizure of a total quantity of 23 kilograms of cannabis resin as well as 120 grams of cocaine, the monetary sum of €41,000 and a vehicle “, details the prosecutor.
Of the ten people interviewed by investigators on June 27 and 28, five were presented to the investigating magistrate who indicted them.
Their identities have not yet been confirmed to us.
