On April 15, 2023, a young underage woman pushed open the doors of the gendarmerie, in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre. Exasperated to see her drug addict companion destroy himself. She explains that he gets his supplies from a remote house, in Grandchamp-des-Fontaines. The gendarmes located the accommodation then carried out an investigation which led to the arrest of the couple who lived there.
At their home, on November 8, 2023, 315 grams of cannabis were found. But the trafficking involves cocaine. The man and woman, aged 31 and 28, are primarily consumers. To finance their consumption, they began to resell it at four to five customers.
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The drugs were purchased from another couple, residing in Couëron. The search also carried out on November 8 led to the seizure of 5 g of cocaine, 190 g of cannabis, 252 ecstasy tablets and €11,240 in cash. Fruit of trafficking, the sum is intended for a trafficker with whom the man has contracted a debt of €15,000. While he was in detention for previous drug convictions, the trafficker came to put pressure on his wife to start selling.
Perfectly integrated professionally, the 29-year-old young woman turned into a cocaine delivery girl for several months, before her partner plunged back into trafficking upon his release from prison. This file is the spring of fear and also of love
says Guillaume Bouche, lawyer for the Coueronnais couple at the trial, this Thursday. We’re just two couples who found each other nice.”
extends Matthieu Creach for the defense of the second couple.
Their arrest served as an electric shock. It was a blessing in disguise, it allowed us to stop our consumption
reveals the man, a temporary worker known to the courts for a traffic offense. His partner, also a temporary worker, is unknown to the courts. After deliberation, the court sentenced them both to nine months in prison. For the other couple, the woman received a two-year suspended prison sentence while her husband was sentenced to one year in prison, a sentence that could be adjusted before the sentencing judge. The two couples will be banned from contact for three years.
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