The discovery was made on the A9, in a truck, at the Remoulins toll gate.
For several months an investigation has been opened and entrusted to the interdepartmental judicial police service for acts of drug trafficking.
“The investigations, particularly technical, led investigators to believe that a transport of narcotics could take place during the night of November 26 to 27. This is how on November 27 in the early morning a truck was intercepted at the Remoulins toll gate, while its trailer contained 720 kilograms of cannabis resin.indicates the deputy public prosecutor of Nîmes.
” Two men aged around twenty and from Vaucluse were arrested. Both have never been convicted by the judicial authorities. Saturday November 30, the Public Prosecutor of Nîmes opened a judicial investigation into charges of detention, transport, acquisition, offer or transfer, importation of narcotics, participation in a criminal association, as well as possession of a category A weapon and B. The two individuals presented were indicted and placed in pre-trial detention“, continues the Nîmes prosecutor's office in a press release.
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