The Blois criminal court sentenced a 23-year-old former Blois resident, identified only as K.C., to 18 months in prison, six of them suspended, on Tuesday 3 November 2026.[1][2] He had already served 12 months of pre-trial detention, six of them under an electronic tag, and was free under judicial supervision when he appeared, so he will not return to prison.[1][2] Presiding judge Xavier Lacasa warned him that a six-month suspended term still hangs over him.[1]

The case began in July 2023 in Blois, when police checked his car while it was stopped and found him inside with two other people and two bags holding 1.5 kg of cannabis.[1] The same stop is also presented as having turned up a 9 mm calibre weapon and counterfeit banknotes in the car.[1][2] The hearing took place on Tuesday 3 November 2026 at the Blois judicial court.[1]

The man told the court he had agreed to keep the bags for 500 euros, “without looking inside”, on an offer from older youths in his neighbourhood he knew only by sight.[2] He said he had never taken part in trafficking and called taking the bags his only mistake, saying he was on a sabbatical year and looking for an employer to start a work-study course.[2] His lawyer stressed that he had complied with his judicial supervision and was moving into work.[2] The two other people in the car were released without charge.[2]

The Blois court also fined the man 2,000 euros and banned him from holding a weapon for three years.[3] He was acquitted of transporting drugs, while convicted of holding a firearm and cannabis.[3] He told the court he had been approached by drug traffickers because he had no criminal record, and was to look after their bags for payment, “without looking inside”.[3] The prosecutor retorted that he could not have been unaware of the cannabis in one of the bags, given the smell.[3] The defendant, who had found work during his judicial supervision, admitted he had made “a mistake” in accepting the offer.[3]