Nine charged over Hérault CBD farm that supplied Val-d’Oise dealers
Nine people aged 22 to 32 were placed under formal investigation at Nanterre between 16 and 22 October 2026 over a cannabis network that ran from a CBD farm in the Hérault, near Montpellier, to dealers in the Val-d’Oise and northern Hauts-de-Seine. Eight were remanded in custody and one woman was released under judicial supervision.
Nine people, men and women aged 22 to 32, were placed under formal investigation
(mis en examen) at Nanterre, in the Hauts-de-Seine, between 16 and 22 October
2026 on suspicion of drug trafficking, criminal association and money
laundering.[1]Eight of them were remanded in custody and one woman was
released under judicial supervision.[1]
The nine are suspected of running a cannabis herb and resin trade in northern
Hauts-de-Seine, the Val-d’Oise and the Hérault, the southern department around
Montpellier.[1]Le Parisien calls the arrangement atypical: the cannabis was
produced and processed on a farm in the Hérault.[1]The factory stood a few
kilometres from Montpellier.[1]The site was a CBD — cannabidiol — factory
that in fact supplied “real” cannabis to dealers in the Val-d’Oise.[1]
Hidden in the south-east, it served as a resupply point for go-fast convoys from
the Paris region, the fast road runs used to move drugs between cities.[1]The
charges followed the dismantling of a go-fast network linking the Hérault to the
Île-de-France, the Paris region.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Charged
9
Agency type
Anti-narcotics agency
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Other building
Case stage
Charged
Sources
Le Parisienleparisien.frFRL’usine de CBD de l’Hérault fournissait en « vrai » cannabis les dealers du Val-d’Oise
Open questions the AI reported
Le Parisien's full text is behind a paywall; only its opening paragraphs could be read, so no quantities of cannabis, plants or money were available.
The nine were charged over a range of dates, 16 to 22 October 2026; no separate date or place is given for the police operation that dismantled the network, and the report uses the last charging date, 22 October 2026.
The farm's exact location in the Hérault is not given beyond a few kilometres from Montpellier.
None of the nine was named, and no trial date or court outcome is reported.
Only one source for the case could be found and opened.
Eight people were placed under formal investigation and remanded in custody in Toulon over a drug-trafficking network centred on the Val-des-Rougières estate in Hyères. Searches after the 3 November 2026 raids in four Var towns seized 7.7 kg of cannabis resin, 1 kg of herbal cannabis, €35,600 and two pistols.
Damien Coulange, 34, appeared before the Nevers criminal court on 4 November 2026 over 245 g of cannabis herb and 44 g of resin found when police searched his flat for an unrelated armed-robbery case in September 2025. He admitted dealing to pay a drug debt while already serving five years for armed robbery, and the prosecutor requested three years of immediate imprisonment.
A van caught fire on the A9 near Vergèze on 25 October 2026, revealing about 150 kg of burning cannabis resin alongside cigarettes and perfumes. The Brussels-based driver, tried for drug trafficking in Nîmes, was acquitted on the benefit of the doubt after saying he thought he was carrying olive oil.
Nineteen suspects were referred to the Paris criminal court over a network that allegedly paid for Guadeloupe-routed cocaine with cannabis shipped from mainland France. A twentieth suspect, jailed in Spain, will not stand trial with them, and a 3 November hearing will set the trial calendar.
