Over a tonne of cannabis resin seized in van at Gerzat toll, A71
French customs seized more than a tonne of cannabis resin from a van at the Gerzat toll on the A71 on 9 April 2026. The driver was arrested and the Clermont-Ferrand judicial police opened an investigation.
French customs officers stopped a utility vehicle at the Gerzat toll plaza on
the A71 in Puy-de-Dôme, north of Clermont-Ferrand, at about 2am on the night of
Wednesday 8 to Thursday 9 April 2026.[1]The driver of the vehicle was
arrested and placed in police custody.[1]The prosecutor’s office said an
investigation was opened and entrusted to the Clermont-Ferrand judicial police.[2]
The seizure involved more than one tonne of cannabis, described as cannabis
resin, found during the roadside customs check.[1]The drug was hidden in bags
stored in the boot of the vehicle.[1]The utility vehicle was travelling on
the A71 between Clermont-Ferrand and Orléans.[2]
No profile of the detained driver was released.[1]A customs account described
the A71 as one of the main routes used by traffickers to move drugs arriving
from Spain, alongside the A10 via Bordeaux and the A7 via Lyon.[1]French
customs seized more than 67 tonnes of cannabis in France in 2025, according to
the same reporting.[1]
Case data
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Customs officers seized 40 kg of cannabis products from a Spanish UPS truck at the Fontaine toll on the A36 on 9 November 2026. Two Spain-based delivery drivers, aged 36 and 46, were detained after admitting they acted as “mules” for a load collected in Madrid.
Police seized about 100 kilos of drugs, mainly cannabis with some cocaine, from a nourrice stash flat supplying deal points in Vénissieux's Joliot-Curie sector. The reports give only a combined weight, so no cannabis-only quantity can be recorded.
Six people were taken into custody after searches across Corrèze and Saône-et-Loire linked to the Kannathera CBD chain; police seized 444.1 kg of cannabis, 190.2 kg of it resin. The Brive prosecutor's office said four suspects were placed under judicial supervision pending trial and two others were summoned to court.
On 3 November 2026 a Paris court ended a mother's social-housing lease after several kilos of cannabis and cash were found in her son's bedroom, put at 6.5 kg. The court accepted she paid rent, had no neighbour complaints and knew nothing of her son's activity.
