Drawing.
A police car in intervention, January 15, 2019, in Paris.
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Clément Follain / 20 Minutes
Hitting the net.
Seven men suspected of drug trafficking were brought to justice on Friday after the dismantling in Val-de-Marne of a deal point nicknamed "the oven in southern Paris", a police source told AFP.
A deal point is defined by the Ministry of the Interior as a place on the public highway where traffickers sell drugs on a daily basis.
Located in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the city of Longs Sillons, this point of deal had an "estimated turnover, since June, at 900,000 euros, which is enormous", commented the police source.
Seven men already known to the police
This "southern Parisian oven", "very well served" because located near the Paris ring road and the 13th arrondissement, received nearly "a hundred customers per day" and sold "nearly 100 kg of resin and about twenty 'cannabis herb all year round,' the law enforcement source added.
The seven men, already known to the police, were born between 1998 and 2003. They were presented to justice for the opening of a judicial investigation with requisition of a committal warrant, said the Créteil prosecutor's office.
According to the police source, the "main manager of the network has fled abroad".
During searches at the beginning of the week, 13,500 euros in cash were seized by the narcotics brigade of the Territorial Security of Val-de-Marne.
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