Revolver and cannabis seized in a Terres-Sainville security sweep in Fort-de-France
Police checked 37 people in Fort-de-France's Terres-Sainville district on 2 October 2025 and seized a revolver along with crack, cannabis herb and cannabis resin, taking four scooters off the road. It was the second security sweep in the district in three days, after two homicides there in two months.
🇫🇷 Terres-Sainville, Fort-de-France, Martinique · France
Police in Fort-de-France ran a security sweep in the Terres-Sainville
neighbourhood on Thursday 2 October 2025, the second such operation in the
district in three days.[1]Several dozen officers were deployed, including a
dog handler from the canine unit.[1]
Officers found a revolver and also recovered crack, cannabis herb and cannabis
resin.[1]The operation was run by the Direction territoriale de la police
nationale, the national police’s territorial directorate for Martinique,
reinforced by a mobile gendarmerie platoon, with the stated aim of fighting
street crime, the circulation of weapons and drug trafficking.[2]Officers
checked 37 people and 21 motorbikes and scooters.[1]France-Antilles reported
four scooters, a .44-type revolver and drugs (crack, cannabis herb and cannabis
resin) seized in the operation.[2]Police took four scooters off the road.[1]
Police and gendarmes deployed late in the day and covered several roads and
sensitive points of the district, carrying out identity checks and targeted
checks of two-wheelers.[3]La 1ère listed the judicial seizures as a .44
revolver plus drugs: crack, cannabis herb and cannabis resin.[3]Police placed
the operation in a strategy of regular presence meant to reduce street crime,
cut off drug dealing and take weapons off the streets, and announced further
operations in the coming weeks.[3]
Photos and video
Photo published with the Terres-Sainville sweep report, captioned with the headline about the revolver, crack and cannabis seized, showing a handgun and bags of drugs on a table.Photo details
No weight was published for the cannabis herb or the cannabis resin, and no amount for the crack, so no quantity can be recorded.
No number of arrests was reported for this sweep, and no suspect, charge or court outcome was announced.
The reports do not say where in the district the revolver and drugs were found, since the operation consisted of identity checks and two-wheeler checks.
The earlier sweep in the same district on 30 September 2025, in which a pistol with a laser sight was seized and one person arrested, is a separate event left out of this report.
The RCI photograph carries only the article headline as its caption and no stated credit, so it is not established that it shows exactly the items seized on 2 October; the France-Antilles and La 1ère police pictures were not added because their direct addresses could not be confirmed.
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