Two jailed three years after 208 kg of cannabis found at Gye toll
Customs officers stopped two men at the Gye toll plaza in Meurthe-et-Moselle on 23 May 2025 and found 200 kg of cannabis resin and 8 kg of cannabis herb in a car. A court in Nancy sentenced both to three years in prison and a 730,000-euro customs fine.
🇫🇷 Gye toll plaza, Gye, Meurthe-et-Moselle · France
A court in Nancy sentenced two men to three years in prison each and a customs
fine of 730,000 euros over a cannabis shipment stopped at the Gye toll plaza.[1]Customs officers had arrested the two men, a 22-year-old Belgian resident
and a 28-year-old man from Moselle, at Gye a few days earlier.[1]
Officers found 200 kg of cannabis resin and 8 kg of cannabis herb in the cars.[1]The seizure was made at the Gye toll plaza in the early morning of 23 May,
and the officers said they were alerted by the behaviour of the younger man.[1]The Belgian, described as the man who opened the way, was seen leaving his
vehicle to meet the second driver, a man from Moselle aged 28 at the wheel of a
German saloon car.[1]Customs officers found the drugs hidden in that
German-registered car.[1]
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The intercepted car holding 200 kg of cannabis resin and 8 kg of cannabis, after customs officers stopped it at the Gye toll on the morning of 23 May. Photo: Cédric JacquotPhoto details
The article is partly behind a subscription paywall, so details after the description of the find could not be read.
The text says the sentencing was "lundi" (Monday) but gives no date; 26 May 2025 is the Monday before the 28 May publication and is used as the incident date.
The two men are described as a "transporteur" (carrier) and an "ouvreur" (the man opening the way for the convoy); the exact charges and which role each was convicted of are not stated in the readable text.
The article does not say whether the three-year terms were partly suspended or whether either man appealed.
No street value for the resin or herb was published; 730,000 euros is the customs fine, not an estimated value.
No independent second account of this seizure or trial could be opened.
The photo is credited to Cédric Jacquot of L'Est Républicain and shows the intercepted car.
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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.
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