Hazebrouck cannabis network's main defendant gets 24 months
Gendarmes dismantled a cannabis-trafficking network between Hondeghem and Hazebrouck, then brought two people before a guilty-plea procedure at the Dunkirk prosecutor's office. The main defendant was sentenced to 24 months in prison, 14 of them suspended with probation, after admitting he sold 8.5 kg of cannabis since February 2025.
Gendarmesarrested several people and searched homes in Hondeghem and Hazebrouck
on 13 October 2026, with more than 20 officers and specialist units taking part.[1]The operation dismantled a cannabis-trafficking network that operated
between Hondeghem and Hazebrouck.[2]Two days later, on 15 October, the
Dunkirk prosecutor’s office brought two people before a CRPC, the French
guilty-plea procedure.[2]The main defendant was sentenced to 24 months in
prison, 14 of them suspended with probation.[3]
Officers seized356 g of cannabis herb and 84 g of cannabis resin, as well as 69
g of cocaine, cash, motorbikes, electric bicycles and equipment.[1]During
questioning, the main defendant admitted selling 8.5 kg of cannabis since
February 2025 for estimated revenue of €68,000 to €85,000.[2]Additional
seizures were valued at about €9,000.[4]
The inquiry began in August 2025 after a tip about possible cannabis sales from
a house in Hondeghem, near Hazebrouck, and the Hazebrouck research brigade
investigated under the Dunkirk prosecutor.[2]Investigators found a regular
resale business and identified several people involved.[1]
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Gendarmes at a building in Hondeghem during the operation. Photo: Gendarmerie / SIRPA / F. BourdeauPhoto details
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No total number of people arrested was published; the reports say only that there were several arrests.
The reports do not name the two people brought before the Dunkirk prosecutor or say what happened to the second one.
The reports do not separately state when the sentence was imposed; 15 October 2026 is the date the two were brought to the prosecutor and the sentence is reported in the same procedure.
Oise Hebdo says the operation came 'two months later' although its inquiry began in August 2025; the other reports place the operation more than a year after the inquiry opened.
Oise Hebdo reports about 40 consumers identified and 45 interviewed, while L'Indicateur des Flandres says 45 were identified; the report uses 45 interviewed.
The main defendant's sales are given as 8.5 kg by Oise Hebdo, Delta FM and Mona FM, and as more than 8 kg by L'Indicateur des Flandres.
The €9,000 figure is given only as the equivalent value of additional seizures, without a breakdown.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Delta FM: Forty-five consumers were interviewed during the first two days of the operation.
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.