Françoise kept the drugs from her trafficker neighbours. In the courtroom, this little pensioner with glasses swears a little with the disparate team of drug traffickers with sometimes sinister faces that surrounds her. At 63 and not a trace on her criminal record, this “grandma stups” responds for the first time in her life, since Tuesday March 21, before the Paris Criminal Court, to facts of drug trafficking in the company of twelve fellows. This crew is suspected of having, between 2020 and 2021, organized or participated at different times in vast trafficking in cannabis and cocaine in Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis), Paris and generally throughout the region. Parisian.
“We said yes to help”
Why did he agree to keep drugs in his apartment? “I have never been threatened. Our neighbors, asked us to keep two bags? We said yes, to help, ”explains the sixty-year-old. Françoise knew very well what was in the laundry that passed from the 11th and 13th floors of the tower. She has lived in this town since 2001. Her husband suffers from alcoholism and her son likes to smoke cannabis. She sometimes let him dig into the supply. “It’s hard for a mother to say no,” she remarks.
Ends of the month are often difficult to make ends meet and her neighbour’s grandson is providential. “He’s a great guy with a big heart who does a lot of service in the neighborhood. Me too, he helped me out at the end of the month. Of course, I understood what was in the bags. The narcotics in Noisy, we are surrounded only by that. We live with constantly. It’s part of everyday life suddenly, we even forget that it’s forbidden, ”she regrets before the bar of the court.
Delivery of cocaine in Paris and its inner suburbs
It was in September 2020 that investigators from the first judicial police district received information concerning a trafficker, aged 50, who would deliver cocaine in Paris and its inner suburbs. Officials discover that an international component and arms trafficking refer to Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium. They identify a group of criminals from Noisy-le-Sec. But in the meantime, the dealers are arrested by their counterparts at the police station and receive heavy prison sentences.
Microphones are placed during visits to the visiting room of the remand center but also in the cars. In the course of the exchanges, the investigators understand that one of the bosses of this team is worried about the resale of the cannabis stock and the takeover of the territory by a competing team. It is also about Françoise, the nanny who keeps the narcotics in her apartment, located in her parents’ tower in Noisy. These actions can update another network and identify other suspects. On October 1, 2021, the police launched an operation in Seine-Saint-Denis but also in Lognes (Seine-et-Marne). In a Seine-et-Marnais warehouse, the police get their hands on 149 kg of resin, 7,000 euros and three pistols. One of the criminals had implemented an operation there to repackage this cannabis, which had become unsaleable because it had changed color. This man, condemned to move around in a wheelchair after being shot, hired a team of skilled Moroccan workers and provided them with all the equipment.
The dealers settled in his kitchen
The police also pass through Noisy-le-Sec and discover a safe at the trafficker’s mother’s, a few grams of resin and rotten grass in Françoise’s refrigerator. The retiree admits everything. But does not give any name until her interrogation before the examining magistrate where she admits that she agreed to be the nanny because she was friends with the mother of this sibling of traffickers from the city. She stored the products and the dealers settled in her kitchen to package the goods and do their accounts. The interrogations continue during the trial all this week. The requisitions of the public prosecutor are scheduled for March 29 and the deliberation will be delivered after the pleadings of the many defense lawyers.