Sunday April 7, a large quantity of drugs, more than 7,000 euros in cash and gold bars were found at the home of Jamilah Habsaoui, the mayor of Avallon, in Yonne. The councilor was placed in pre-trial detention on Wednesday April 10.
The affair caused a lot of noise. Early Sunday morning, the police arrived at Jamilah Hasbaoui’s family home.
On site, investigators seized 70 kg of cannabis, nearly a kilo of cocaine, 20 gold bars and 7,000 euros in cash.
After 72 hours of police custody, Jamilah Habsaoui and five other people were brought before the Auxerre court before being indicted and placed in pre-trial detention as part of an investigation into “drug trafficking”, indicated in a press release the public prosecutor in Auxerre, Hughes de Phily.
The prosecutor specifies that a preliminary investigation, launched in October 2023, made it possible to “accuse two brothers of Jamilah Habsaoui as being able to habitually purchase and resell narcotics from their sister’s home”.
Was she aware?
One of them would have admitted the facts and “completely clears his sister”indicates the mayor’s lawyer in the columns of Republican Yonneadding that “there is not necessarily a connection between the six accused”.
Former member of the Socialist Party, Jamilah Habsaoui is 45 years old. A pharmacy technician by profession, she was not directly elected as head of the municipality but became one in 2021 following the resignation of the former councilor. She is also delegated advisor in charge of rurality in the Burgundy Region.
According to The Parisian, the house searched is the one purchased by the mayor of Avallon from her father. His two brothers live with him, but not the city councilor. One of them has already been convicted of drug trafficking and, according to Jamilah Habsaoui’s lawyer, would have completely exonerated his sister during her custody.
The investigators’ investigations will now have to show whether or not Jamilah Habsaoui was aware of her brothers’ trafficking.
“We share the suffering of Jamilah Habsaoui, thrown out to pasture on social networks and in defiance of the very principle of presumption of innocence“, indicated the elected officials of the Avallon municipal council in a press release cited by our colleagues.