Grower arrested with about 30 cannabis plants in Ouzioini
Dembeni gendarmes took control of a cannabis plantation of about 30 plants in Ouzioini on 2 January 2021. One suspected grower was arrested, held in custody and due before the prosecutor on Monday.
In Ouzioini, gendarmesarrested a man suspected of producing cannabis and placed
him in garde à vue, the initial period of police custody.[1]The arrest was
made on Saturday by officers of the Brigade territoriale de Dembeni, the local
gendarmerie unit responsible for the area.[1]The detained grower was expected
to be brought before the parquet, the public prosecutor’s office, on the
following Monday for further proceedings.[1]
The same Dembeni brigade said it had taken control of a cannabis plantation in
the locality of Ouzioini during Saturday’s operation.[1]Gendarmes who
examined the plantation discovered about thirty cannabis plants growing at the
site.[1]
The gendarmerie presented the arrested man as the producer linked to that
plantation.[1]The Gendarmerie nationale, the country’s national gendarmerie
force, was identified as the authority reporting the operation.[1]The
plantation find and the arrest were reported together as a single gendarmerie
operation in Ouzioini.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The plant figure is approximate, reported as about thirty (une trentaine), so 30 is recorded as an approximate count.
The article gives no separate date for the operation beyond Saturday; 2 January 2021, the publication date which was a Saturday, is used as the incident date.
The detained man's name, age and other identifying details were not published.
No weight, field area or valuation was published, so no kilograms, hectares or value can be recorded.
No court outcome beyond the planned referral to the prosecutor on Monday was reported.
Whether the discovered plants were uprooted, seized or destroyed was not stated beyond the brigade taking control of the plantation.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in French; no second corroborating report could be opened.
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