A 47-year-old woman of Russian origin, resident of Almeria in Spain and mother of two children, was sentenced by the Mulhouse criminal court on Thursday 12 November 2026.[1] The court sentenced her to two years in prison and a customs fine of 87,832 euros.[1] She was stopped by French customs on Christmas Day, 25 December 2022, at the Franco-German border at Ottmarsheim, where she had just arrived from Spain driving a Chrysler Grand Voyager on her own.[1] Customs officers found nearly 22 kilograms of cannabis hidden in the vehicle, concealed in a hydraulic-jack trap fitted under the car.[1]
Woman jailed two years over 22 kg of cannabis in her car at Ottmarsheim
At the Mulhouse criminal court on 12 November 2026, a 47-year-old Russian woman based in Almeria, Spain was sentenced to two years in prison and an 87,832-euro customs fine over nearly 22 kilograms of cannabis found by French customs in a hidden trap in her car at the Ottmarsheim border crossing on Christmas Day 2022.
🇫🇷 Ottmarsheim · France
- Cannabis
- 22 kg
- Prison
- 2 years
- Fine
- EUR 87,832
- Agency
- French customs (douanes)
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
- Case stage
- Sentenced
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Cannabis
- 22 kg
- Prison
- 2 years
- Fine
- EUR 87,832
- Agency
- French customs (douanes)
- Agency type
- Customs, Court
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis (22 kg)
- Activity
- Smuggling
- Setting
- Vehicle, Land border
- Case stage
- Sentenced
- Sentence
- Prison, Fine
- Region
- Haut-Rhin
Sources
- L'Alsacelalsace.frFROttmarsheim. Elle transportait 22 kilos de cannabis dans sa voiture : deux ans de prison
Open questions the AI reported
- The article is paywalled, so the full account of how the trap under the car was fitted and exactly where the cannabis was hidden could not be read.
- The source gives the amount as 'nearly 22 kilograms', not an exact measured weight.
- No street value for the cannabis was published.
- The woman did not appear at the hearing; no appeal or later outcome was reported.
