Six held as Saint-Pierre police find 32 kg of indoor-grown zamal
Police in Saint-Pierre, Réunion, dismantled a family cannabis operation run from an indoor grow room lit by lamps, seizing 32 kilograms of plants, 26,000 euros in cash, a top-of-the-range car and a motorbike. Six people were placed in police custody.
Police in Saint-Pierre, Réunion, found an indoor room lit by lamps and dedicated
entirely to growing cannabis plants at a family home this week, the National
Police said.[1]Officers seized32 kilograms of plants during the searches.[1]The suspects both grew the cannabis and sold it on.[1]
Six people in total were placed in police custody in the case, Imaz Press
Réunion reported.[2]Officers also found 26,000 euros in banknotes at the
premises.[1]A top-of-the-range car and a large-engined motorbike completed
the list of finds.[1]The raids took place at Saint-Pierre, the main town of
Réunion’s south, and authorities described the operation as breaking up a small
family “business”.[1]Imaz Press Réunion reported the same 32 kilograms of
plants, the 26,000 euros, the car and the motorbike, and said the six suspects
had been placed in police custody.[2]
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Page picture captioned "Saisie de cannabis à Saint-Pierre", a National Police of Réunion handout published with the report. Photo: Police nationale de La RéunionPhoto details
No source gives an exact date for the searches; 7 April 2023 is Imaz Press Réunion's publication date, and Réunion La 1ère reports the operation as having taken place "this week".
The sources weigh the plants (32 kilograms of plants) but give no weight or street value for dried cannabis or resin, so no dried-cannabis quantity or value is recorded.
No charge sheet, trial or court outcome has been reported; the case was at the police custody stage.
The six suspects are not named and no ages were given, and the sources do not say how many suspects were later charged.
The 32 kilograms is total plant material; no separate count of individual plants was published.
No accessible statement from the police themselves was found; Zinfos974's article on the case returned an access error, so it is not cited.
The text gives a number of plants ("32 kilograms of plants") but the figures have no plants_destroyed; check whether it belongs there.
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