Tarascon prison guards find 572 g of cannabis resin in a cell
Guards at the Tarascon detention centre in Bouches-du-Rhône found 572 g of a product that appeared to be cannabis resin, 21 g of white powder that appeared to be cocaine and a mobile phone in one cell on 27 October 2026, the FO Justice union said. It said about 60 phones had been seized in the prison since early October and demanded an extensive search.
🇫🇷 Tarascon detention centre, Tarascon, Bouches-du-Rhône · France
On 27 October 2026, guards at the Tarascon detention centre in Bouches-du-Rhône
found suspected drugs and a phone in a single cell, the prison officers’ union
FO Justice said.[1]The find was 572 g of a product that appeared to be
cannabis resin.[1]Officers also found 21 g of white powder that appeared to
be cocaine.[1]A mobile phone was found as well.[1]
FO Justice said the seizures showed the officers’ work and revealed the scale of
the problem.[1]The union said about 60 phones had been seized across the
prison since the start of October, on top of repeated drug finds.[1]It said
trafficking fed debts, pressure and tension in detention.[1]Officers bore the
consequences daily and were the first exposed when violence broke out, it added.[1]
FO Justice demanded a “fouille XXL”, an extensive search of the prison, with
reinforcements, support from the ERIS regional intervention teams and
dog-handling units.[1]It called for regular, targeted and reinforced cell
searches to stop drugs and banned objects entering and circulating.[1]It
asked for enough staff to carry out the searches and keep officers safe day to
day.[1]The prison’s local management and the Marseille interregional prison
service (DISP) had to answer the demands quickly and precisely, it said.[1]
Case data
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Only the FO Justice union reported the 27 October cell find; no prison administration or prosecution statement and no independent news report of it was found.
No arrest, charge or court outcome over the find was reported, and the detainee whose cell was searched was not named.
The union describes the substances as products that appeared to be cannabis resin and cocaine; no test result confirming them was reported.
The union does not say what happened to the 572 g of resin, the 21 g of powder or the phone after the search.
A larger cannabis resin seizure at the same prison on 7 October, mentioned as background in the same statement, is a separate event and is not counted in this report.
The roughly 60 phones seized across the prison since early October are a prison-wide figure, not part of this cell find.
No photograph of the cell search or the seized drugs was published; the union's page shows the prison building.
Customs officers seized 40 kg of cannabis products from a Spanish UPS truck at the Fontaine toll on the A36 on 9 November 2026. Two Spain-based delivery drivers, aged 36 and 46, were detained after admitting they acted as “mules” for a load collected in Madrid.
Police seized about 100 kilos of drugs, mainly cannabis with some cocaine, from a nourrice stash flat supplying deal points in Vénissieux's Joliot-Curie sector. The reports give only a combined weight, so no cannabis-only quantity can be recorded.
Six people were taken into custody after searches across Corrèze and Saône-et-Loire linked to the Kannathera CBD chain; police seized 444.1 kg of cannabis, 190.2 kg of it resin. The Brive prosecutor's office said four suspects were placed under judicial supervision pending trial and two others were summoned to court.
On 3 November 2026 a Paris court ended a mother's social-housing lease after several kilos of cannabis and cash were found in her son's bedroom, put at 6.5 kg. The court accepted she paid rent, had no neighbour complaints and knew nothing of her son's activity.
