France/ heroin and cocaine trafficking: 60 people arrested

About sixty people were arrested Monday on suspicion of being involved in the trafficking of cocaine and heroin thriving since 2006 in the Gulf of St. Tropez in the south-eastern France, according to a sources close of the investigation.

•     A dozen people including the alleged leader of trafficking were arrested in Marseilles, the other in Saint-Tropez and several in surrounding municipalities. All have been kept in custody.
  
      According to a source close to the investigation, the head of the network among the arrested is an Algerian of thirty years, living under a false identity. Considered by investigators as a major international trafficker, he lived the center of Marseilles.
  
      According the same source, the other network members also lived in several neighborhoods in Marseille. Luxury vehicles were seized and bank accounts frozen.
  
      According to another source close to the investigation, 2.5 kg of heroin, 2 kg of cocaine, more than 2,000 ecstasy pills, cannabis plants, 90,000 euros, a handgun, and 22 calibre cartridges were seized.
  
      
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