The gendarmes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Vaucluse communicated in turn this week on “large-scale” seizure operations of drugs, weapons and cash. The Lower Alpine authorities arrested 12 people suspected of being involved in “vast drug trafficking”.
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It's a successful week which is coming to an end for the gendarmes of Vaucluse and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Major operations to seize drugs, weapons and cash were successfully carried out in both departments.
In Vaucluse, 160 soldiers from the Avignon company as well as reservists of the Vaucluse gendarmerie group mobilized throughout the week to carry out a large-scale operation called “Gerfauts”, in reference to the gyrfalcon. Between December 2 and 6, the police carried out road checks, on public transport, “in sensitive neighborhoods and even cyberspace“, indicates the gendarmerie on Facebook. All combined with “several large-scale legal actions“.
The announced objective of the operation was to “destabilize criminal networks and guarantee a visible and reassuring presence for the population“. In total, the Vaucluse gendarmes seized 1.2 kilos of cannabis resin, 130 grams of cocaine, €7,000 of stolen multimedia equipment, as well as €110,000 of cash from fraud, according to the gendarmerie. her, these “excellent results“illustrate its”determination to work tirelessly against crime“.
-But the Vaucluse gendarmes were not the only ones to carry out a large-scale operation at the beginning of December: this Saturday, the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence gendarmerie announced the results of a major mobilization on “the last six months“having mobilized”more than 140 gendarmes“And this Monday, December 2, the police carried out”a large-scale legal operation” Who “led to the arrest of 12 individuals, including 11 men and one woman, suspected of being involved in vast drug trafficking in the Southern Alps“.
This offensive by the authorities would be linked “to a case of kidnapping that occurred in Banon a few months ago“. According to the gendarmes, “this operation constitutes a brutal end to this drug trafficking network which was rampant in the region“.
The Alpes-de-Haute-Provence gendarmerie has been seeking to dismantle “vast drug trafficking in the Southern Alps” for 6 months.
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© Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Gendarmerie
During these six months of work, the gendarmes say they have carried out searches in several municipalities in the department, notably in Manosque, Villeneuve or Banon, but also in Gap, in the Hautes-Alpes. This operation would have led to the seizure of 606 grams of cocaine, 852 grams of weed, as well as 227 grams of cannabis resin, for an estimated loss of €49,000, the authorities said. Were also seized “two handguns, a shotgun, 99 illegally possessed rounds of ammunition and four cannabis grow rooms“, in addition to 35,000 euros in cash and nine vehicles.
To carry out this operation, the Bas-Alpes gendarmes were notably helped by dog teams from Var and Vaucluse, as well as by “teams specialized in the surveillance of the department and the Region“.
Still according to the gendarmerie, at the end of this long action, “10 committal warrants were executed“, “and two other people are under judicial supervision“An investigation continues.”to identify other accomplices and refine the elements of the case“.
