The Bobigny public prosecutor’s office has requested a trial for “complicity in drug trafficking” against the PS mayor of Canteleu (Seine-Maritime), Mélanie Boulanger, we learned this Thursday from judicial sources, confirming information from World. The prosecution also requested, on December 24, the referral to court of a deputy mayor and 17 other people, specifies The world.
According to the deputy prosecutor in Bobigny, cited by the newspaper, Mélanie Boulanger “voluntarily postponed the installation of video surveillance cameras so as not to hinder drug trafficking” run by a family in Canteleu, which generated enormous profits.
Mayor of the town since 2014
“If her statements and the documents she provides show that, publicly, she was trying to fight against drug trafficking in her commune, the investigations demonstrated that at the same time, she was “working” with the Mezianis by providing them with information essential to the sustainability and development of their drug trafficking,” continues the prosecution. Figure of the Rouen PS, head of the PS-EELV list in the 2021 regional elections, the mayor of Canteleu, Mélanie Boulanger, was indicted with her deputy for complicity in drug trafficking in April 2022.
Mélanie Boulanger and her deputy were placed in police custody on October 8, 2021 during an anti-narcotics raid, then released the next day. In total, nineteen people were placed in police custody as part of a judicial investigation opened in September 2019 for drug trafficking and criminal conspiracy and led by a judge from Bobigny.
Mélanie Boulanger then claimed to have “no link” with the drug traffickers in her town, of which she has been mayor since 2014. “They tried several times to contact me through an intermediary. I am a grassroots elected official. They call me, I answer. They obviously never called me themselves,” the mayor said.