On Monday 2 November 2026, officers assigned to the Alès police station arrested a young adult man on Rue du Lozère, a street inside the Cévennes district of Alès.[1] The officers said they first noticed the young man because his behaviour on Rue du Lozère appeared suspicious and drew their attention.[1] When they stopped and searched him, they discovered both cocaine and cannabis resin in his possession.[1]

Because of that discovery, the officers placed the young man in garde à vue.[1] Midi Libre presents this Monday arrest as another example of a recurring local pattern in which young adults brought in from outside Alès are used as expendable chair à canon to keep the wheels of the local narcotics trade turning.[1]

The account places both the suspicious behaviour that prompted the check and the subsequent arrest on Rue du Lozère inside the Cévennes district.[1] He is identified only as a jeune majeur, a young adult just over the age of majority.[1] The officers involved were all assigned to the commissariat of Alès, the town police station.[1]