“This is probably one of the heaviest sentences ever pronounced in the field of crack trafficking”, blows a judicial source. Friday, October 29, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced a repeat trafficker to seven years in prison. A sentence accompanied by a committal warrant and a definitive ban from the territory. His accomplice, who was arrested in possession of 55 grams of crack, was sentenced to three years in prison.
Several weeks of surveillance revealed a large-scale traffic, mainly around the Eole gardens, in the 19th arrondissement, where many drug addicts live in escheat: the police have thus counted up to seven transactions in the space of one o’clock. At the home of the first, already convicted of almost identical facts, the investigators discovered 184 grams of cocaine and everything necessary for the manufacture of “cakes”.
500 grams of crack
“The problem with crack referrals is that they are always small amounts. 100-200 grams of crack doesn’t look like much compared to hundreds of kilos of cocaine or cannabis, but in terms of disturbing public order, it’s huge, ”insists the same source. It only takes a few grams of cocaine to make cakes. In 2020, less than 2 kilos of crack were seized in the capital. A figure which makes it possible to realize the exceptional nature of another case, judged the same day in the same court.
A man was sentenced to five years in prison after the discovery, in mid-September, at his home of 505 grams of crack, 344 grams of cocaine, as well as 2,500 euros in cash and a bulletproof vest. Another specificity of this case: while in the majority of cases of this type, crack traffickers go to consumers, the investigation, carried out by the 3rd district of the judicial police of Paris, made it possible to establish that he , dealt from his home in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.