Fort-de-France’s criminal court sentenced a 25-year-old man to 15 months in prison on 1 December 2025 for illegally possessing a firearm and drugs.[1] The court also fined him 1,500 euros and banned him from possessing a firearm for ten years.[1] He returned to detention after the hearing and had ten days to appeal.[1] He was presented in immediate appearance on 20 October and remanded in pre-trial detention until a trial set for 1 December.[2]

Police and mobile gendarmes, acting on the public prosecutor’s requisition, ran the operation from 5am to 7:30am on Saturday 18 October 2025 outside the AS Discothèque in Le Lamentin.[3] They seized four weapons, including a pellet pistol and a dummy pistol.[3] Two of the weapons were found in vehicles, including an automatic pistol.[3] Two suspects were placed in police custody after the checks.[3] Small quantities of cannabis resin and herb were found during the operation.[3] One suspect was remanded in custody pending investigation.[3] The other suspect was due to be tried for weapons possession.[3]

In the vehicle where the defendant was, gendarmes found a loaded Glock with 9mm cartridges hidden in a pizza box on the passenger seat and seized 110 g of cannabis resin.[1] He denied owning the weapon and drugs.[1] He said his car had been unlocked and a third party could have left them there.[1] He had a previous conviction in June 2020 for unauthorised possession of a category B weapon.[2] He was sentenced to one year in prison for that offence.[1] His lawyer argued that CCTV footage and fingerprint analysis did not directly link him to the items.[1] The court accepted the prosecution’s position that nothing showed the items were not his.[1]