The requisitions of the deputy public prosecutor are heavy. At the height of this “big deal”, according to her. Four dockers, five intermediaries and two shippers have been tried since Monday before the Rennes criminal court for a vast case of cocaine trafficking dismantled at the port of Montoir-de-Bretagne (Loire-Atlantique). Sentences ranging from four to ten years in prison were requested on Wednesday against the accused.
The public prosecutor asked against one of the West Indian shippers, ten years in prison, considering that the man was involved “by a relentless bundle of clues”. The defendant, already four times sentenced to heavy sentences, has a “lifestyle disproportionate to his income”, with “seven bank accounts and no declared employment”, underlined the prosecutor Flavie Le Sueur. Another Antillean, “crook touches everything”, convicted of less serious offenses, was required to five years of imprisonment.
Sponsors could not be identified
Regarding the dockers, the prosecutor had harsh words against them, judging that they had made “a choice of life” by engaging in cocaine trafficking, guided by the lure of profit and a “feeling of omnipotence. While they are in a well-paid profession. Also, eight years of imprisonment were required for one of them, 35 years old and presenting a clean record. The latter was to recover 100,000 euros for a “rip off”, a technique consisting in recovering the drug placed in a container when the doors opened. “These are too severe requisitions. It happened to him once and he deeply regrets, he had a lack of reflection, ”explained his lawyer, Me Fathi Benbrahim.
Four years, two of which were suspended, were requested for another docker, the only defendant to appear free. Finally, for the three intermediaries, a “link” between the dockers and mysterious Parisian sponsors who could not be identified, sentences of between five and six years were requested. The judgment is expected Thursday.