A pair residing in Souillac, within the Lotwas positioned in pre-trial detention after being indicted for a number of offenses, together with drug traffickingarmes et drug traffickingthe Cahors and Agen prosecutors indicated on Tuesday in a joint press launch. The 2 suspects had been offered to the felony division of the Agen judicial court docket.
The investigation, opened on Might 19 by the gendarmes of Toulouse and Gourdon, led to the couple’s arrest per week later. The 2 individuals had been arrested on board a camper van coming back from The Netherlandswhereas they had been going to a plot of land positioned in Martel, about fifteen kilometers from their house in Souillac.
An actual arsenal found
Through the searches carried out Friday at their house and on this “very remoted space”, investigators seized “5 assault rifles (AK47, M16), 4 rifles, 9 handguns, greater than 1,000 cartridges and tear fuel grenades”, in keeping with the press launch from the prosecution. The gendarmes additionally found “11 kg of merchandise narcotics (cocaine, heroin, ketamine, ecstasy, MDMA, amphetamine)” in addition to “a sum of 26,000 euros in money”.
The couple was my in exam for “participation in a felony affiliation with a view to getting ready an offense punishable by 10 years of imprisonment, arms and drug trafficking, cash laundering and concealment of theft”. No further info on the id of the 2 individuals was communicated by the Cahors and Agen prosecutors.