Nearly 1,000 indoor cannabis plants seized in a Landas hangar
On the morning of 29 August 2026 police found about 1,000 indoor cannabis plants and roughly 80 kg of plants and harvest in a storage box at the rear of a hangar on rue d’Orchies in Landas, Nord; the SIPJ drugs squad is investigating and no suspects were named.
On Saturday morning 29 August 2026 officers searched a large hangar on rue d’Orchies in Landas, in
the Douaisis area of northern France.[1][2]Inside a box at the back of the building they found
about one thousand cannabis plants lined on the floor with grow lamps, air extractors and fertiliser,
La Voix du Nord and Midi Libre reported.[1][2]
Police seized roughly eighty kilograms of plants and harvested material, according to both papers,
which cited the Nord investigation.[1][2]The case was assigned to the drugs brigade of the
interdepartmental criminal police service (SIPJ).[1][2]
The hangar sits behind a childminding home called “Un pas à la fois”; the outlets said that service
had nothing to do with the cultivation.[1][2]As of the reporting in early September 2026,
investigators were still trying to identify who ran the box.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Plants destroyed
1,000
Cannabis
80 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Living plants (1,000 plants)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Home
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
La Voix du Nordlavoixdunord.frFRJuste derrière la micro-crèche, un millier de pieds de cannabis découverts dans un hangar dans le Nord
Midi Libremidilibre.frFRLes policiers découvrent un millier de pieds de cannabis : la plantation se trouvait à deux pas d’une crèche
Open questions the AI reported
La Voix du Nord said how police entered the hangar was under investigation and did not describe arrests.
Outlets noted a neighbouring childminding home had no link to the grow; the crèche is context only.
Event photos in La Voix du Nord were not copied here; direct image addresses were not extracted from the opened pages.
Gendarmes arrested three people, two men and a woman aged 26 to 46, and found 36 cannabis plants in a hangar in Redessan, Gard, on 26 October 2026. All three were placed in police custody and brought before the Nîmes judicial court on 29 October, facing up to 10 years in prison.
Police ran two security operations in Pointe-à-Pitre on 28 and 29 September 2026, in Mortenol and at the Péricarpin and Cipolin housing estates, and arrested two people. Officers found about fifty sachets containing cocaine and cannabis herb during the second operation.
Police arrested five people during a 21 September 2026 operation in Bergevin, Pointe-à-Pitre, seizing more than 6 kg of cannabis herb from a dwelling and common areas. Four arrests were linked to suspected drug trafficking, while one person was wanted on an arrest warrant and another faced an order to leave France.
While evacuating a Roma camp near the Prairie de Mauves during a 20 July 2026 fire, Nantes police found about 150 to 200 cannabis plants; after the blaze was controlled on 21 July they uprooted the remainder and opened a judicial inquiry.
