Béziers: 15 months firm over drone cannabis drop at prison
Béziers court gave an 18-year-old man 15 months in prison and a 21-year-old woman six months suspended on 29 October 2026, after police stopped them near the prison with a drone and a package holding 97.25 g of cannabis and 29.10 g of cocaine. The man, previously convicted over a similar drone drop, was jailed at once; the woman was banned from the prison area for three years.
🇫🇷 Béziers, Hérault · France
- Arrested
- 2
- Charged
- 2
- Cannabis
- 0.1 kg
- Prison
- 15 months firm; six months suspended
An 18-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman were arrested near the Béziers prison
on the night of 28 October 2026.[1] A police patrol stopped their car on a
track beside the prison, where officers found a drone and a package prepared for
an illegal delivery into the detention centre.[1] Police seized 97.25 g of
cannabis and 29.10 g of cocaine from the package.[1] Investigators said the
21-year-old’s role was to get the 18-year-old to the spot, where he was to take
the drone and fly the package into the prison.[2]
He had already been convicted over similar facts in Aix-en-Provence on 8 April
2026 and given 15 months, six of them suspended with probation.[3] The
21-year-old also appeared on 29 October under the guilty-plea procedure for
complicity in an attempted illicit handover to a prisoner.[1] She was
sentenced to six months suspended and banned from the area around the Béziers
prison for three years.[1] She had no criminal record and admitted the facts.[3]
Sources
- Béziers : une livraison de drogue par drone à la prison déjouée, deux jeunes condamnés. Hérault Tribune, 30 October 2026. In French.
- Béziers : ils voulaient livrer du cannabis et de la cocaïne par drone en prison, deux individus condamnés. InfOccitanie, 30 October 2026. In French.
- Ils tentaient de livrer de la drogue à des détenus par drone : deux personnes arrêtées près de la prison de Béziers et condamnées. France 3 Régions, 30 October 2026. In French.
Open questions the AI reported
- The reports disagree on who was driving: France 3 says the 21-year-old woman was at the wheel, while InfOccitanie calls the 18-year-old man the driver.
- No photograph of the drone, the package or the arrests was published; the images with the reports are labelled illustrations of the prison or of police.
- No estimate of the value of the drugs was published.
- The reports do not say which prisoner the package was intended for.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in InfOccitanie: The 18-year-old was tried in immediate appearance, a fast-track procedure, on 29 October and given 15 months in prison with immediate incarceration.
