Avignon BTS student arrested with nearly 3 kg of cannabis
Avignon police arrested a BTS commerce student in October 2026 for suspected drug trafficking after seizing nearly 3 kg of cannabis. The student also punched a plainclothes officer during the check and was refused release under judicial supervision.
🇫🇷 Avignon, Vaucluse · France
Arrested
1
Cannabis
3 kg
Avignon police arrested a BTS commerce student from a school in Vaucluse in
October 2026 for suspected drug trafficking and violence against a police
officer.[1]The student arrived at a suspect flat during the operation and
refused to be checked.[1]He punched a plainclothes officer carrying out the
check in the face.[1]He said he did not know the man was a police officer
because he was in civilian clothes with nothing to suggest he was police.[1]A
court recently refused the student’s request for release under judicial
supervision.[1]
Avignon officers had been watching movements around a building and a flat in a
working-class district.[1]After following a young man, officers seized nearly
3 kilos of cannabis and 20 grams of synthetic products from his bag.[1]Officers then searched the suspect flat and found narcotics stored in the
refrigerator.[1]Police described the flat as one where the refrigerator was
full of drugs.[1]
The cannabis amount recorded here is the nearly 3 kilos, while the 20 grams of
synthetic products are mentioned only to explain the mixed seizure and are
excluded from cannabis figures.[1]
The article says the arrest happened in October without giving an exact day, so 2 November 2026, the article's update date, is used as the incident date.
The cannabis weight is reported as nearly 3 kilos, not an exact laboratory weight.
The article does not make clear whether the young man followed with the bag was detained beyond the student's arrest, so only the student's arrest is counted.
The student's full name and age were not published.
No court outcome beyond refusal of release under judicial supervision was reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in French.
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