Mayotte customs seize a record 30 kg of cannabis resin at Pamandzi airport
Customs officers at Marcel Henry airport in Pamandzi found 30 kilos of cannabis resin, in 300 slabs, in two unclaimed suitcases from a Paris flight on 3 June 2023. Customs valued the haul at 65,000 euros and said it alone equalled 70 per cent of Mayotte's resin seizures in 2022; an investigation was opened but no one was immediately arrested.
🇫🇷 Aéroport Marcel Henry, Pamandzi, Mayotte · France
Customs officers at Marcel Henry airport in Pamandzi found two suitcases left
unclaimed on the arrivals belt after the last passengers of a flight from Paris
Charles de Gaulle collected their bags on Saturday 3 June 2023.[1][2]An X-ray
scan showed suspicious images, and when the cases were opened they held nothing
but slabs of cannabis resin.[1][2]The 300 slabs weighed 30 kilos, a weight
customs gave more exactly as 30,180 grams, and customs valued the load at 65,000
euros on the national market.[3][2]
The two suitcases were handed to the judicial investigation service of the
police on the instructions of the public prosecutor’s office, which opened an
investigation, including to identify the owners of the baggage.[3][2]No one had
been arrested or charged in the case when the seizure was reported.[1]
The haul alone equalled 70 per cent of all the cannabis resin seized by
Mayotte’s customs service in 2022.[3]The seizure was described as a record
for Mayotte, where cannabis resin had been found at the airport before.[1]In
November 2022 a 19-year-old was sentenced to 18 months in prison and a
3,000-euro fine after 6 kilos of resin were found in his suitcase at the
island’s airport.[1]
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Info976info976.ytFRImportante saisie de résine de cannabis à l'aéroport de Mayotte
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The two accounts differ slightly on the weight, 30 kilos in Mayotte La 1ère and 30,180 grams in Info976; the report uses Info976's figure of 30.18 kg and keeps the 30-kilo description in the text.
No arrest, charge, trial or court outcome was reported; the investigation was opened to find the owners of the suitcases.
The article does not say who checked the passengers or how the baggage travelled, only that the cases went unclaimed.
The 2022 figure of 43.5 kg is Mayotte customs' total for the year and is not counted as part of this seizure.
The earlier airport cases mentioned (6 kilos of resin in a suitcase in November 2022, 20 kilos in April 2022, and 16 kilos posted from Le Mans in February 2023) are separate cases and are excluded from these figures.
Customs officers seized 40 kg of cannabis products from a Spanish UPS truck at the Fontaine toll on the A36 on 9 November 2026. Two Spain-based delivery drivers, aged 36 and 46, were detained after admitting they acted as “mules” for a load collected in Madrid.
Police seized about 100 kilos of drugs, mainly cannabis with some cocaine, from a nourrice stash flat supplying deal points in Vénissieux's Joliot-Curie sector. The reports give only a combined weight, so no cannabis-only quantity can be recorded.
Six people were taken into custody after searches across Corrèze and Saône-et-Loire linked to the Kannathera CBD chain; police seized 444.1 kg of cannabis, 190.2 kg of it resin. The Brive prosecutor's office said four suspects were placed under judicial supervision pending trial and two others were summoned to court.
On 3 November 2026 a Paris court ended a mother's social-housing lease after several kilos of cannabis and cash were found in her son's bedroom, put at 6.5 kg. The court accepted she paid rent, had no neighbour complaints and knew nothing of her son's activity.
