Nitrous seller arrested, cannabis seized in Kaysersberg
The nitrous-oxide seller linked to a December night crash at Kaysersberg Vignoble was arrested and cannabis was seized. The crash had injured two of four young occupants of a Peugeot 206.
Investigators arrested the nitrous-oxide seller connected to a serious night
crash at Kaysersberg Vignoble and seized cannabis during the same operation.[1][2]The earlier crash left two people injured, including one seriously, during
the night of 30 December at Kaysersberg.[1][2]Four young people had been
travelling in the Peugeot 206 SW involved in the crash.[1][2]
Four young people aged 17 to 23 were travelling in a Peugeot 206 toward Colmar
when the 19-year-old driver lost control.[3]The Peugeot lost its engine block
and came to rest on its side.[3]Firefighters had to extricate the 19-year-old
driver, in absolute emergency, and an 18-year-old passenger, in relative
emergency.[3]Both were transported by SMUR to Pasteur hospital in Colmar.[3]
The gendarmerie investigation was to determine whether speed alone caused the
crash or whether substances consumed by the young people, at least the driver,
caused the loss of control.[3]
Photos and video
The wrecked Peugeot 206 after the night crash at Kaysersberg; one passenger was reported seriously injured. Photo: Nicolas Pinot.Photo details
Anti-crime squad officers arrested three men selling cocaine and cannabis resin from Marseille streets on Sunday 8 November 2026, two in the 11th arrondissement and one in the 15th. Two officers were injured overpowering the third man, and all three were taken into police custody.
A 24-year-old man was arrested in Montpellier's Saint-Martin neighbourhood on 8 November 2026 after offering to sell cannabis to an undercover anti-crime (BAC) officer, and three officers were needed to detain him when he bit one of them. Officers found 21 g of cannabis, a small amount of cocaine and cash nearby, and he is due in court on 10 November.
Police in Le Mans stopped a 22-year-old riding an electric scooter at high speed on the pavement on 8 November 2026 after he refused to stop, then found a substance that appeared to be cannabis resin on him. He was held in custody and is to be summoned in June 2027 under a fixed-penalty court order providing for 70 hours of unpaid work.
Police in Draguignan arrested one adult and two minors after finding nearly 2.5 kg of cannabis resin disguised as Dubai chocolate bars in their car. One of the three, who was to deliver the drugs, was referred to the prosecutor and placed under judicial supervision pending trial.
