Man convicted over 34 kg found in abandoned car in Mulhouse
A 40-year-old man was convicted by the Mulhouse court on 28 October 2026 over 34 kg of cannabis found in an abandoned car a year earlier. Police identified him from fingerprints on a soda can and arrested him in Montbéliard; he had two earlier convictions.
A 40-year-old man was convicted by the Mulhouse court on Wednesday 28 October
2026 over 34 kg of cannabis found in an abandoned car in the city a year
earlier.[1]He had been convicted twice before, in 2009 and in 2022.[1]
Police from Mulhouse’s brigade des stupéfiants, the city’s anti-drug squad, were
on an operation for another case on 7 October 2025 when they found a large
quantity of drugs in the Bourtzwiller district.[1]The drugs were in a Citroën
R Cross parked on rue de Vittel.[1]A drug dog alerted at the vehicle, and
officers saw transparent bags sticking out of a sack in the boot.[1]The
parquet, France’s public prosecutor’s office, gave permission, and the officers
opened the boot.[1]
The inquiry identified the man from fingerprints left on a soda can and led to
his arrest in Montbéliard.[1]The case took a full year to reach the Mulhouse
court.[1]
Case data
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A 28-year-old driver tested positive for cannabis after rear-ending a car and injuring its driver at Percy-en-Normandie on 2 January 2026. The Coutances court sentenced him on 10 November 2026 to six months suspended imprisonment and cancelled his driving licence.
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.
Anti-crime police in Passamaïnty, Mayotte, broke up a drug deal on 4 November 2026 and seized 3.334 kg of cannabis and 8,495 euros in cash from a suspected stash flat; three people were arrested. Two young men were tried in Mamoudzou on 9 November and sentenced to 30 months with 12 suspended and a 15-month suspended term.