Suspected of being an international cocaine trafficker, Joël Soudron is the most wanted man in France and is one of the sixty “Most Wanted” faces of Europol, broadcast everywhere since Friday.

Originally from Guadeloupe, this 42-year-old man is described by investigators from the National Fugitive Search Brigade (BNRF) as an international trafficker, "very discreet, thoughtful" with "disproportionate financial strength".

On the run since 2018

The police had managed to trace it back to him in 2011 thanks to the discovery at the port of Le Havre of 230 kg of cocaine from Guadeloupe. Investigators then identified the shipping company, in whose premises they seized 270 kg of cocaine and 280,000 euros in cash. Joël Soudron has invested a lot, according to investigators, in the legal economy in French-speaking Africa to launder traffic money, constantly traveling between different countries and Guadeloupe.

In February 2016, he was arrested in Mali and then jailed to serve a six-year prison sentence for another case in which he had been convicted in France.

In September 2018, he took advantage of an exit permit to escape.

Very discreet, Joël Soudron does not have a rowdy run unlike other traffickers who are not afraid to appear on social networks to show off their wealth.

Two other French "Most Wanted"

Investigators hope that Europol's “Most Wanted” with the dissemination of photos of the fugitives and the opening of a dedicated site (www.euromostwanted.eu) will allow information to be collected to locate them.

Two other French fugitives appear in this list of the European police agency.

The first, Karim Ouali, is a former air traffic controller wanted for the savage ax murder of one of his colleagues in 2011 at Basel-Mulhouse airport.

He was recently located in Hong-Kong, where the authorities remain deaf to the demands of the French justice. The second, Farouk Hachi, alias "Mosquito", was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison in 2009 for several bank robberies and could lie between Belgium, the Netherlands and the north of France.

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