Niort: 23-year-old remanded over cannabis resin and €1,270 cash
Police arrested a 23-year-old man in Niort on 29 May 2021, while he was banned from Deux-Sèvres, and found cannabis resin and 1,270 euros in cash on him. At his immediate-appearance hearing on 31 May the Niort court granted him time to prepare his defence and kept him in provisional detention pending a hearing on the merits.
🇫🇷 Tribunal correctionnel de Niort, Niort, Deux-Sèvres · France
Police arrested a 23-year-old man in Niort on 29 May 2021 for his possible
involvement in trafficking drugs.[1]He was arrested while banned from
appearing in Deux-Sèvres, the department whose capital is Niort.[1]He was
carrying 1,270 euros in cash and a small quantity of cannabis resin, which was
seized.[1]
He was born in Bangui, in the Central African Republic, had no valid residence
permit since April 2017 and was unmarried and unemployed.[1]His criminal
record carried twelve convictions, eight of them for drug offences.[1]He was
due before the Niort criminal court on Monday 31 May under the
immediate-appearance procedure, comparution immédiate, which lets a court try a
suspect within days of arrest.[1]
At that hearing he asked for time to prepare his defence, a postponement the
court had to grant.[1]His lawyer, Me Nathanaël Ormillien, asked for further
investigation, and the request was granted.[1]The court ordered him held in
provisional detention until trial.[1]The case was set to be tried on the
merits on 5 July at 13:30.[1]He may have been filmed shortly before his
arrest by a person who could shed light on the case.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cash confiscated
EUR 1,270
Agency type
Police, Court
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Possession, Sale
Setting
Street or public place
Charge
drug trafficking
Case stage
Charged
Region
Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Sources
Courrier de l'Ouestouest-france.frFRNiort. 1270 € en liquide et un peu de résine de cannabis sur lui : il attendra en prison d’être jugé
Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no weight for the cannabis resin, only that a small quantity was found, so no cannabis kilograms are recorded.
The body sets the hearing on the merits for 5 July while the standfirst says he would explain himself on 8 July; neither date could be checked elsewhere.
The 1,270 euros is a cash sum found on him, not a published value for the cannabis.
No sentence, conviction or later outcome in this case was reported in the opened account.
Only one accessible source was found; the article is credited to Courrier de l'Ouest and published on the Ouest-France site.
The page's photo is an archive illustration whose caption does not state that it shows the accused, so it is linked only as an archive photo.
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