• Mohamed Hamidi was known to the services for having supplied, at least until 2015, Marseille networks.

  • Arrested in 2015, he was remanded in custody before fleeing pending trial.

  • Sentenced to 8 years in prison in his absence, he was arrested on July 2 in the suburbs of Barcelona.

Mohamed Hamidi will only have escaped justice for a handful of months. Sentenced in Marseille in his absence to eight months in prison last March for international drug trafficking, the 38-year-old man was arrested last week in the suburbs of Barcelona, ​​after a fruitful cooperation between the Marseille police, Montpellier and Barcelona.

Originally from the Lyon region, "he supplied various Marseille networks by sourcing from Spain but worked a lot with the Carmelite team," explains Sébastien Lautard, head of the Marseille police stupid group. A team dismantled in 2015 shortly after the latter ended up paying their supplier "with the lead". Understand bullets. "Carrot" but unharmed, Mohamed Hamidi was also "smacked" by the Marseille PJ shortly after, as he came back loaded with 90 kg of cannabis from Spain. Placed in pre-trial detention, released pending trial, the trafficker took the opportunity to disappear from radar. At least try, because the sentence that awaits him is final: the Marseille court condemns him in his absence to 8 years in prison. In the process, an arrest warrant is issued.

When love betrayed

Bandits, traffickers and fugitive but in love, it is his companion who will unwittingly lead the investigators to the suburbs of Barcelona.

“The Marseille colleagues had worked well with his entourage and told us that his partner lived in the Montpellier region,” continues Commissioner Jean-Philippe Fougereau.

The Montpellier team specializing in fugitives then began the technical and physical surveillance of this woman who established contact with the trafficker.

And it is undoubtedly the telephony which paid.

The police learn that his partner will join him in Spain in early July.

An international arrest warrant is required and the French police are requesting the assistance of their Spanish colleagues.

Spun by a French crew from his home beyond the Spanish border, as allowed by European cooperation, the companion of Mohamed Hamidi leads the investigators to the suburbs of Barcelona.

It was the Barcelona police officers who picked him up on July 2 at 10:30 p.m. He is currently detained in Barcelona, ​​pending his extradition.

"A great case of police cooperation", is satisfied and concludes Jean-Philippe Fougereau.

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  • Miscellaneous

  • Drug traffic

  • Lyon

  • Marseilles

  • Montpellier

  • Justice

  • Languedoc-Roussillon