Driver jailed 3½ years after 329 kg of cannabis found in a Fréjus tunnel camper
On 10 September 2025 Modane customs stopped a German-plated camper at the Fréjus tunnel, finding 329.28 kg of cannabis in hidden sleeping-area compartments. The Albertville court sentenced the driver to three years and six months in prison and his passenger to the same term suspended, with a €500,000 customs fine and a permanent French entry ban for both.
Modane customs officers stopped a German-registered camper on the afternoon of 10 September 2025 on
the motorway area at the Fréjus tunnel.[1]The driver and his passenger said they were returning
from holidays in Spain and heading to Italy.[1]
Agents found two hidden compartments in the sleeping area and a third cache, with dozens of
heat-sealed bags totalling 329.28 kilograms of cannabis herb.[1]The judicial tribunal in
Albertville sentenced the driver to three years and six months in prison and the passenger to the
same term with the sentence suspended, plus a permanent ban from French territory and a €500,000
customs fine for each.[1]
Le Dauphiné, reporting the same interception, describes the driver as an Italian national sentenced
to 38 months in prison and the same €500,000 customs penalty.[2]ICI notes the figures come from
a customs press release covering this case and a later, separate haul on the A43.[1]
Photos and video
Customs photo illustrating the Modane brigade's September 2025 cannabis seizures.Photo details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cannabis
329.28 kg
Agency type
Customs
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (329.28 kg)
Setting
Prison
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison
Route
Spain → Italy
Sources
ICI (Radio France)ici.frFRArchived copyTunnel du Fréjus : 300 kilos d'herbe de cannabis saisis dans un camping-car, le conducteur condamné à de la prison ferme
ICI's article on a customs communiqué also describes a separate 165.4 kg seizure on 16 September at Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne; that is a different event.
Le Dauphiné's 19 September piece reports an Italian driver and 38 months' imprisonment but most detail sits behind its paywall.
Neither open source names the driver or passenger.
A 28-year-old driver tested positive for cannabis after rear-ending a car and injuring its driver at Percy-en-Normandie on 2 January 2026. The Coutances court sentenced him on 10 November 2026 to six months suspended imprisonment and cancelled his driving licence.
The criminal court in Troyes sentenced 47-year-old Ramzi Nefzaoui to 14 months in firm prison for drug trafficking and issued an arrest warrant. The case began when gendarmes stopped his Renault Laguna at Barberey-Saint-Sulpice in December 2025 and found cannabis resin, herb, cash and a scale.
The Fontainebleau criminal court sentenced a driver to five years in prison, including two years firm, over a fatal 2021 crash at Souppes-sur-Loing in which his 20-year-old passenger died. The court heard he had drunk alcohol and smoked cannabis and was driving at 135 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.
Anti-crime police in Passamaïnty, Mayotte, broke up a drug deal on 4 November 2026 and seized 3.334 kg of cannabis and 8,495 euros in cash from a suspected stash flat; three people were arrested. Two young men were tried in Mamoudzou on 9 November and sentenced to 30 months with 12 suspended and a 15-month suspended term.