Man jailed 3 years over 34 kg cannabis resin at Martinique airport
A 34-year-old repeat offender from Limoges was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison for trying to smuggle 34 kilos of cannabis resin through Martinique's Aimé Césaire airport. He was jailed in Ducos, banned from Martinique and ordered to pay a 50,000-euro customs fine.
🇫🇷 Aéroport Martinique Aimé Césaire, Le Lamentin, Martinique · France
A 34-year-old man tried to bring 34 kilos of cannabis resin into Martinique.[1]The man is originally from Limoges in central France.[1]He had already
been convicted 11 times before this case.[1]Customs officers arrested him
that weekend.[1]The case centred on Martinique’s Aimé Césaire airport.[1]He carried the drug in his suitcases while in a state of legal repeat offending.[1]
After custody and an investigation by the Office Anti-stupéfiants, the anti-drug
office, he faced trial.[1]He was tried in immediate-appearance proceedings on
14 October 2026.[1]The court sentenced him to 3 years and 4 months in prison
and banned him from staying in Martinique.[1]He was jailed in Ducos prison.[1]He was also ordered to pay a 50,000-euro customs fine.[1]
Cannabis resin is highly prized in Martinique, where one kilo of resin can be
exchanged for one kilo of cocaine.[1]
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Aéroport Aimé Césaire in Martinique, where the arrest took place. Photo: RCIPhoto details
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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.
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