Operation "Trident": Anti-Narcotics Office raided, an officer in the sights of the IGPN

Will the "Trident" fiasco spark a new national scandal over the practices of the French anti-drug police? On Tuesday, July 22, as revealed by Le Parisien , a search conducted by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the police force of the police, targeted the headquarters of the Anti-Narcotics Office (Ofast), the leader in the fight against drugs in France, located in Nanterre. The operation, planned in the greatest secrecy by the IGPN's national investigations division, notably targeted two Ofast officials, including a police commander. Their work computers were seized and their offices and homes were searched.

The name of this official is not unknown to investigators from the police force. He is even behind the vast investigation conducted since the beginning of 2024 into the importation, from Colombia and under the supervision of police officers, in April 2023, of nearly 400 kilos of cocaine into Marseille. Thanks to this "controlled delivery" organized with the help of the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Marseille Ofast branch hoped to bring down Mohamed "Mimo" Djeha, the "kingpin" of the Castellane estate, one of the most lucrative drug dealing points in Europe. But, unable to catch "Mimo" and burdened with hundreds of kilos of drugs, the police had no choice but to approach other trafficking teams to sell their merchandise. Result: nearly 400 kilos of drugs vanished and no arrests. A failure all along the line.

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