They were considered by the police as a “weight team”, managing both the supply and the deal for the Charles-Schmidt estate, in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), an “oven” – place of sale of narcotics – which generated nearly 80,000 euros in turnover. business weekly. Thursday January 19 and Friday January 20, eight people aged 20 to 39, including two women, all unfavorably known to the police, were arrested in two waves by investigators from the Seine-Saint-Denis Departmental Judicial Police Service. , in Rosny-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) and Argenteuil (Val-d’Oise).
The crackdown, meticulously prepared after seven months of investigation carried out jointly with the Saint-Ouen police station, within the framework of a rogatory commission issued by an investigating judge of the Bobigny judicial court, led to the discovery of more of 250 kilos of cannabis resin and 6 kilos of weed in an apartment and a utility vehicle. “No weapon was found, underlines a police source, but the operation materializes one of the most important catches in the sector, which results in the dismantling of one of the most profitable deal points in Saint-Ouen. »
Particularly well organized, the suspects kept their stock in the neighboring department of Val-d’Oise, believing that police pressure was less there than in Seine-Saint-Denis, and regularly supplied the “oven” of the Charles-Schmidt estate. thanks to couriers in charge of bringing the goods there by borrowing transport vehicles with drivers (VTC).
bloody conflict
Located 250 meters from the Garibaldi metro station, on line 13, the Cité Charles-Schmidt, which has 113 housing units, was classified among the “priority security zones” in 2013, then included in the “districts of republican reconquest in 2019. In recent months, traffic there has benefited from a marked upturn due to “ramming” operations by the police carried out in other areas of the municipality of Saint-Ouen, such as the quoted Michelet, which led to a transfer of customers to Charles-Schmidt. Like other parts of the city, this city has been for several years at the heart of violent clashes between drug traffickers for control of the cannabis trade.
The bloody conflict with a certain Mehdi El Zohairi, nicknamed “Unhealthy”, presented as the manager of the deal point of the city of Boute-en-Train, had notably led to the assassination, in August 2019, of Mohamed Gacem alias ” Cyborg”, suspected then of directing the traffic. A long war for traffic control followed. In September 2020, two young men were found shot dead in a cellar in the Soubise city. On February 16, 2021, a 25-year-old young man was seriously injured by bullets in Cité Cordon after a 26-year-old man had been beaten to death, a few meters away, a month and a half earlier. In July 2021, the police had foiled yet another settling of accounts by arresting a 30-year-old carrying, in a bag of dog food, a Yugoslav-made assault rifle.
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