A court in the Yvelines sentenced a 51-year-old man on 18 July 2024 for organising cannabis shipments from the Paris region to Guadeloupe.[1] The sentence was 18 months in prison, nine of them suspended.[1] He had been arrested at Orly airport the day before the ruling as he prepared to travel to the French West Indies.[1] Sending cannabis from mainland France to Guadeloupe ran against the usual direction of the trade.[1]

The arrest followed a judicial police investigation in Plaisir, in the Yvelines.[1] Trappes customs officers had earlier searched a parcel at a delivery company and found close to 2 kg of drugs bound for Guadeloupe.[1] Analysis of communications then led investigators to detain a mother and her daughter at their home in the Paris region.[1] The father then took full responsibility for the trafficking.[1] He admitted buying cannabis in Seine-Saint-Denis and packing it for shipment.[1]

Officers found about 1.5 kg of cannabis, herb and resin, packed in a chocolate box in his luggage.[1] He said the drugs he meant to carry were to repay an earlier seizure owed to those who ordered the shipments.[1] The mother and daughter, who knew nothing of the trafficking, were cleared.[1]