He is portrayed as one of the most important French drug traffickers.

Moufide Bouchibi, known as "Mouf", was sentenced Wednesday on appeal to 18 years in prison by the Bordeaux Court of Appeal, for a series of "go fast" in 2011 and 2012 involving several tons of cannabis.

The conviction is in accordance with the requisitions of the representative of the public prosecutor's office during his appeal trial last December.

The Court of Appeal combined this sentence with a two-thirds security period, a fine of one million euros and a customs fine of 2.9 million euros.

His lawyers have announced that they will quickly file an appeal in cassation.

Nine years on the run

Wanted by the police since 2012, the 41-year-old Franco-Algerian had been sentenced in his absence in 2015 to 20 years in prison before the Bordeaux criminal court, taking into account a state of recidivism.

After nine years on the run, he was arrested in March 2021 in Dubai.

His transfer to France, which the defense has always denounced as a "disguised extradition", led to a new trial last September before the same court, which sentenced him to 16 years in prison.

The Bordeaux prosecutor's office recognizes "an error"

On appeal, the defendant denied being behind the traffic and questioned the validity of the wiretapping, at the heart of the accusation, arguing that a single investigator "identified him".

His defense then asked the court to "legally dismiss them" after learning the day before at the hearing that these exhibits had been destroyed "by mistake" as part of a "massive clearance of seals" plan. in 2019. The Bordeaux prosecutor's office recognized a "human error".

“We were not able to have these seals (…) allowing us to verify that Moufide Bouchibi was indeed the speaker (…), which is from the point of view of the defense very serious.

It is incredible, a first in France”, reacted strongly on Wednesday his advisers, Me Amar Bouaou and Me Keren Saffar, saying that they wanted to file an appeal in cassation “as of this Wednesday”.

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