More than thirty mobile gendarmes and gendarmes of the Martinique gendarmerie carried out an anti-crime operation on Friday 5 June 2026 in the communes of Ducos and Le Saint-Esprit, in southern Martinique.[1] Officers deployed to three sensitive sectors of the two communes for about three hours, searching for drugs, weapons and ammunition.[1]

At the end of the operation, gendarmes had written ten fixed fines, known in France as amendes forfaitaires délictuelles and issued on the spot without a prior investigation, for holding drugs.[1] Officers seized 60 grams of cannabis herb, along with one 9 mm cartridge and one 12-gauge cartridge.[1]

The operation’s commander, Captain Ludovic of the mobile gendarmerie squadron, said officers controlled people at points across the island, searched them and used a dog to find offenders or fine them for holding drugs.[1] The gendarmerie placed the operation in a context of armed violence, with 14 homicides in Martinique since the start of the year, 13 of them by firearms.[1] Colonel Bertrand Pallot, second-in-command of the Martinique gendarmerie, said the force has 100 more gendarmes than when he arrived three years earlier, covering patrol, deterrence and criminal investigations.[1] The RCI page reports the operation in a video by Mélissa Grutus.[1]