- After a police investigation of several months into facts of drug trafficking, the police invaded this Tuesday morning the district of Elsau in Strasbourg.
- During the operation, 20 people were taken into police custody and large sums of money were seized.
It was 6 a.m. on Tuesday when the police invaded the Elsau district in Strasbourg. Specifically in the area of Mathias-Grunewald Street. More than 200 police officers intervened, including men from the RAID, the Strasbourg and Metz Brigade for Research and Intervention (BRI), the judicial police, police dogs, the national gendarmerie and the German police. Objective of the operation carried out by the departmental public security department of Bas-Rhin: the fight against drug trafficking.
The operation took place in peace and ended in the middle of the morning. Only remain, at the end of this morning, mobile gendarmes positioned at the four corners of the district. "Twenty people have been taken into police custody [this can last up to 96 hours]. Narcotic drugs in quantity as well as substantial sums of money were seized ”, indicates the police.
Investigations carried out for several months by the operational intelligence unit on narcotic drugs in the Bas-Rhin (CROSS 67), which have identified several individuals engaged in drug trafficking in the neighborhood.
" Nothing suprising "
"Nothing surprising" according to a person who has lived for a long time in this priority area of the city. At the end of the morning, between the building bars, a few young people were already scrutinizing the movements of the police who remained on the spot. "It is traffic, everyone knows it, but it is calm here," adds another resident. But when it's not the young people who are looking, it's the police, each in turn. "
A young mother, born in the neighborhood, only goes there from time to time to visit family. Since becoming a mother, she has preferred to move. “Before, it was not like that, it was good here, says the young woman. But it has become nonsense, there are minors who traffic, they are barely 12 years old. I didn't want that for my boys, I prefer to pay more and live in the city. "
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