It was a case that made noise at the time.

In June 2020, the police dismantled drug trafficking thanks to the capture of data passing through the French servers of the EncroChat encrypted telephone system, not declared to the authorities despite legal obligations.

Two years later, the Bordeaux Criminal Court has just sentenced several people in the first instance in this case.

"To our knowledge, this is the first condemnation decision in France (not final because subject to appeal) of criminal acts revealed by the capture of data from the illicit telephone system EncroChat", explains the Bordeaux prosecutor's office in a press release. .

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The investigation entrusted in April 2020 by the specialized interregional jurisdiction (JIRS) of Bordeaux to the research section of the Bordeaux gendarmerie had revealed, thanks to the clarification of written conversations and photographs transmitted by Encrochat, a trip of import of narcotics (heroin, MDMA, ketamine, cutting product were mentioned) from the Belgian border to Bordeaux and Brittany.

In addition, Encrochat messaging users recounted the multiple narcotics transactions in which they engaged during the period of the first confinement.

The main perpetrators were arrested on June 16, 2020 and presented to an investigating judge.

From 3 to 8 years in prison

During the searches, a vehicle with a fitted cache used for the import trip, €13,000, two Rolexes and a BQ telephone with Encrochat messaging were seized.

During the investigation, the legal remedies were dismissed by the Court of Appeal and the Court of Cassation.

At the correctional hearing of March 24, 2022, the main author, in legal recidivism and under electronic bracelet at the time of the commission of the facts, was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment and kept in detention.

His main accomplices were sentenced to three years' imprisonment with a warrant of committal with deferred effect.

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How the gendarmes infiltrated a gigantic network of encrypted phones

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