On 22 December 2025 the Lille prosecutor announced the dismantling of a large network importing cocaine and cannabis through the Norman ports after an investigation of nearly three years.[1] The investigation began in March 2022 in Rouen into the importation and resale of cannabis and cocaine.[2] After the international dimension emerged, the Lille specialised jurisdiction took over the case with two investigating magistrates.[2] Investigators identified a Rouen-based network that moved drugs through the ports of Le Havre and Moulineaux using dockers’ information on container movements.[2]

On 11 December 2023 officers found 23 kilos of cannabis resin in the storage unit of one of the identified traffickers.[2] Nine people were then arrested and all were charged.[2] Six of them were placed in pretrial detention and three dockers were placed under judicial supervision.[2] The suspected head was located in Casablanca, Morocco, accused of organising all the imports by road and sea of cannabis resin and herb from Morocco and cocaine from Colombia.[2] Those goods were sent toward the ports of Le Havre and Moulineaux in Normandy and Dunkerque in the north.[2]

He was arrested in Morocco on 22 February 2025 and handed to the French authorities on 23 September 2025.[2] He was charged the next day on ten counts including organising and directing a group for drug trafficking, importation and sale, aggravated money laundering and active and passive corruption.[2] He was placed in pretrial detention.[2] In the same case investigators reported 183 kilos of cocaine seized in June 2023 in a container at Le Havre and further cocaine arrivals of 400 kilos and one tonne by drop-off in September 2023.[2]