A fugitive drug trafficker was arrested near Montpellier on Thursday after being sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in clearing accounts in Marseille, a police source told AFP on Friday (July 8).
This 37-year-old man was aAn important member of the Marseille drug gangGuillaume Lacassine, head of the National Refugee Search Brigade (BNRF), which is responsible for the investigation that led to the arrest, explained. He was convicted on appeal by the Supreme Court of Aix-en-Provence in January 2022 of “conspiracy to commit a crime“In this case, a murder in the context of clearing accounts in Marseille in the summer of 2016,” explained Commissioner Lacassine.
He also had a second warrant for his arrest for three years in prison for drug trafficking, the commissioner said. “Careful“that was”presented with a fake identity and used his phone very little“, the commissioner clarified. “He turned green a few kilometers away from where he committed his crimes and lived in tourist resorts and hotels in the Montpellier region.“, he added.
Investigators eventually located him through a technical telephone investigation at a resort where he had been staying for several weeks. He was arrested in the parking lot of a commercial area with the assistance of police from the fugitive search team of the Montpellier judicial police. Then he was taken into custody to serve the sentence.
Source: Le Figaro
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