Man jailed 2 years in Nîmes over 30 g cannabis resin haul
A 50-year-old repeat offender was sentenced in Nîmes to two years in prison after police seized 30 grams of cannabis resin and just over 15 grams of cocaine from him on 3 November 2026. Released from detention on 24 October, he was arrested after approaching officers with a plastic bag hidden under his sweatshirt and was also banned from the Gard for five years.
On patrol in Nîmes, national police officers came across Fabrice as he
approached them as if to offer them drugs.[1]Officers grew suspicious because
of a plastic bag hidden under his sweatshirt.[1]The man was arrested in
possession of cocaine, cannabis and a small amount of cash.[1]When he
realised the men facing him were police officers, he fled and fell a few metres
further on with his load.[1]His drug-trafficking case brought Fabrice before
the Nîmes criminal court.[1]Surrounded by police officers, he was taken to
the Nîmes remand prison to serve the sentence.[1]
Officers seized a mobile phone and many small pouches from him.[1]The haul
totalled 30 grams of cannabis resin and just over 15 grams of encapsulated
cocaine.[1]From the dock, he refused to speak and chose to remain silent.[1]The prosecutor, describing a man with a heavy criminal record, requested
five years in prison.[1]
The 50-year-old had already served a one-year custodial term in a
drug-trafficking case.[1]His previous sentence had ended only days before the
3 November offence, as he had been released from detention on 24 October.[1]
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The 4 November 2026 publication date is used as the sentence date because the article reports a hearing held that Wednesday without giving a separate judgment date.
The cocaine amount is reported only as a little more than 15 grams and the cash amount is not quantified, so neither is recorded in figures.
The defendant is identified only as Fabrice, aged fifty, with no surname published.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Le réveil de midi: The court found him guilty and sentenced him to two years in prison with a committal order and a five-year ban from the Gard department.
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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.
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.