Chad’s national gendarmerie presented weapons, drugs, counterfeit notes and motorcycles seized in operations around N’Djamena at a ceremony in Klessoum on Friday 24 July 2020, in the presence of General Djontan Marcel Hoinati.[1] Twenty-nine suspected criminals had been arrested in all, among them retail sellers of cannabis.[1] Retail cannabis sellers were arrested alongside a man described as homosexual and a counterfeit-money trafficker, Alwihda Info reported.[1] Gendarmerie spokesman Abakar Abdramane Haggar said the group also included two armed robbers who held up a motorcycle taxi driver in Gassi, in N’Djamena’s seventh district, two men suspected of links to insurgent movements, two men posing as police to swindle people near Pont Bélilé and two men detained in military uniforms near Gaouï with a motorcycle.[1]

The gendarmerie’s special units group seized cannabis together with six parcels of adulterated drinks and eight sacks of charcoal.[1] Other gendarmerie legions displayed 43 weapons of various calibres, and Legion 10 reported 29 blisters of drugs, a carton of Tramol, a tramadol medicine, six motorcycles, 40,000 FCFA in counterfeit notes and sacks of adulterated drinks.[1] The gendarmerie said this was the eighth time that year that it had presented suspected criminals, weapons and illicit substances to the press.[1]

Journal du Tchad also reported that the 29 suspects were presented at the Klessoum gendarmerie on 24 July, with the seized weapons and exhibits, by gendarmerie spokesman Abakar Abdramane Haggar.[2] The second outlet likewise described cannabis retail dealers among those presented, together with a counterfeit-money trafficker.[2]