The Paris tribunal judiciaire convicted the 11 people tried over a cannabis delivery network run by three brothers from the Val-de-Marne, at the end of a trial that ran for fifteen days.[1]

Afif B., 36, who was tried in his absence after being released when the trial was postponed in 2024, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.[1] His two brothers and their eight co-defendants received sentences ranging from a one-year suspended prison term to 11 years firm.[1] The court also imposed fines running from 30,000 euros to 5 million euros.[1]

The nine men and two women, aged 28 to 38, were tried for running an industrial-scale “go fast” drug delivery system between 2018 and 2020, a term for convoys that carry drugs at speed by car.[1] Led by the three brothers, the network brought large quantities of cannabis from Morocco between 2018 and 2020 to Paris, the Paris suburbs and the provinces.[1]

At the trial, Afif B. said he had sold “bédo”, slang for cannabis, for twenty years and delivered across the whole of France, describing himself as a wholesaler rather than a retailer.[1]