The young drug dealer sold cocaine in particular (illustration).

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C. Villemain / 20 Minutes

  • In Tourcoing, a four-month investigation led to the dismantling of drug trafficking.

  • The person suspected of being at the head of this trafficking is an 18-year-old young man.

  • The respondent used the services of a minor to deliver the goods by bicycle.

In a few months, the police officers of Tourcoing, near Lille, in the North, discovered a relatively important drug trafficking.

A case that could be trivial, except that the people involved are very young, we learned from the Lille prosecutor's office.

Last September, an investigation was opened by the Tourcoing police station concerning trafficking in heroin and cocaine in the popular district of Burgundy.

A business of a rather honorable scale, since the investigators estimate that it is not less than 6 kg of heroin and more than a kilo of cocaine that were sold in this context.

A turnover of 30,000 euros per month

According to the Lille prosecutor, Carole Etienne, the investigations have made it possible to determine that the person at the head of this traffic is a young man of 18 years living in Tourcoing.

His small business generated a monthly turnover of 30,000 euros.

The investigation also determined that the young dealer was using the services of an even younger person, a minor incidentally, to make his deliveries of drugs by bicycle.

The suspects were arrested in early January and taken into custody.

During the search of the home of the alleged dealer, the police found 165 grams of cocaine, 874 grams of heroin and nearly 6,000 euros in cash.

The main defendant was referred last Wednesday and remanded in custody pending trial before the Lille Criminal Court on February 10.

He is notably accused of the sale of narcotics but also of "direct provocation of a minor of 15 years to transport […] narcotics".

The young delivery man was placed in an educational center under judicial supervision.

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