Their target: unaccompanied minors, kids addicted to opiates or drug addicts.
Their main customers: resellers.
Five men from the Lyon region have been jailed and jailed,
Le Parisien
reveals .
They are suspected of having set up a major drug trade.
Thanks to false prescriptions, they managed to obtain free boxes of Rivotril or Lyrica which they then sold in Lyon and Grenoble to dealers, mainly pimps of unaccompanied minors.
Children or adolescents were sometimes forced to "commit crimes for a few fees", indicates to the Parisian a source close to the file.
Very well organized, the members of the network went to stock up in the Netherlands or in Belgium, when they had made the rounds of French pharmacies.
Investigators had been tracking them for two years.
They arrested them Tuesday morning.
Eight people were arrested, including the five suspects indicted.
Hundreds of pills, boxes of psychotropic drugs and fake prescriptions were discovered during the searches.
Paris
Crack in Paris: After a year at Forceval, tensions are at their highest
Miscellaneous facts
Toulouse: From Aude, they organized a lucrative drug trafficking in the Pink City
Company
Traffic
Medication
Dope
Lyons
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Grenoble
Isere