Drug trafficking in Normandy: the mayor of Canteleu considers his custody “unjustified” – South West

Five people were indicted on Sunday in connection with the anti-narcotics crackdown that occurred on Friday in Seine-Maritime and four others will be presented to the examining magistrate on Monday, the Bobigny prosecutor’s office said on Monday.

Among 19 people arrested were the mayor PS and one of his deputies from the municipality of Canteleu, near Rouen. Their custody was lifted over the weekend, according to their lawyers. Eight police custody in total have been lifted as is, the Bobigny prosecutor’s office said Monday morning. Two are still in progress.

“I cannot understand the custody regime. The custody regime was not justified because it was not necessary to establish my probity and my fight as mayor against delinquency, “Mélanie Boulanger said Monday from the town hall, also denouncing” a violation of the secrecy of the instruction that generates rumors and fake news ”.

“I know where you live”

The elected official said she was questioned about the links she could have had with drug traffickers in her town. “I have no connection, I have no connection with these people,” she assured. “They tried several times to contact me through a proxy. I am elected on the ground. They call me, I answer. They obviously never called me themselves. This is what I had to explain ”.

According to her, these traffickers contacted her to try “to impress her, to intimidate her, to dissuade her from leading the fight” against delinquency, when installing CCTV cameras or when she asked for additional resources. She said she was followed by car, expected in the parking lot of the town hall or in front of her home but said she never lodged a complaint, for fear of reprisals.

“In the threats that were formulated to me, there was: I know where you live and I know where your daughter goes to school,” said the mayor. “When you are told that, you say to yourself: if I file a complaint, I must be sure of my shot.” “Threatened once more seriously”, Boulanger even recounted having requested “the prefectural authorities”, with a view to possible protection, in vain.