Cannabis plants seized during bidonville evacuation after a Nantes fire
While evacuating a Roma camp near the Prairie de Mauves during a 20 July 2026 fire, Nantes police found about 150 to 200 cannabis plants; after the blaze was controlled on 21 July they uprooted the remainder and opened a judicial inquiry.
🇫🇷 Chemin du Moulin-des-Marais, Prairie de Mauves, Nantes · France
On Monday 20 July 2026 a major fire broke out near the Prairie de Mauves at chemin du
Moulin-des-Marais in eastern Nantes, destroying about ten hectares of vegetation and part of
nearby informal settlements.[1][2]About 150 firefighters evacuated residents; police who
helped clear the camp discovered a cannabis plantation of roughly 150 to 200 plants, 20 Minutes
reported, citing a police source.[1]
Officers left the plants in place while evacuation continued, Ouest-France said.[2]Once the
fire was under control on Tuesday 21 July 2026, police returned and seized the plants that had
not burned.[1][2]A judicial investigation was opened.[1]
The fire mobilised about 150 firefighters and led to the preventive evacuation of roughly 200
people, according to 20 Minutes; no casualties were reported.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Plants destroyed
175
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Living plants (175 plants)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Field
Grown
Outdoor
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
20 Minutes20minutes.frFRArchived copyNantes : Plus de 150 plants de cannabis découverts lors des évacuations du bidonville touché par un incendie
Ouest-Franceouest-france.frFRUne plantation de cannabis découverte lors de l’évacuation des bidonvilles en proie au violent incendie à Nantes
Open questions the AI reported
Police sources quoted by 20 Minutes gave a range of 150 to 200 plants; Ouest-France reported about 200 plants without a precise count.
Part of the plantation burned in the fire that destroyed about ten hectares of vegetation; the share destroyed was not quantified.
No cultivator was named or arrested in the coverage opened here.
Gendarmes arrested three people, two men and a woman aged 26 to 46, and found 36 cannabis plants in a hangar in Redessan, Gard, on 26 October 2026. All three were placed in police custody and brought before the Nîmes judicial court on 29 October, facing up to 10 years in prison.
Police ran two security operations in Pointe-à-Pitre on 28 and 29 September 2026, in Mortenol and at the Péricarpin and Cipolin housing estates, and arrested two people. Officers found about fifty sachets containing cocaine and cannabis herb during the second operation.
Police arrested five people during a 21 September 2026 operation in Bergevin, Pointe-à-Pitre, seizing more than 6 kg of cannabis herb from a dwelling and common areas. Four arrests were linked to suspected drug trafficking, while one person was wanted on an arrest warrant and another faced an order to leave France.
On the morning of 29 August 2026 police found about 1,000 indoor cannabis plants and roughly 80 kg of plants and harvest in a storage box at the rear of a hangar on rue d’Orchies in Landas, Nord; the SIPJ drugs squad is investigating and no suspects were named.
