This seizure, the most important to date in France, was intended to satisfy a sharp rise consumption.
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Stacked at the bottom of a NOisel shed (Seine-et-Marne), the 16 tonnes of nitrogen overseas bottles discovered by the departmental safety investigators of the Rhône were destined nor to a pastry cluster Fans of Chantilly or anesthetistic doctors. This seizure of a market value of € 2,750,000, carried out in early December, constitutes, according to the authorities, the most important to this day in France. The 7 tons of encapsulated gases in the bottles were ready to feed a very well established national traffic.
On the sidelines of this operation, three people were arrested, including two remand, according to a judicial source. It is the culmination of an investigation launched four months earlier in Villeurbanne (Rhône), now led by the specialized interregional court (JIRS) of Lyon. The details of this case, revealed by Le Monde, testify to the structuring of massive importation networks of “Proto” in France, to satisfy a so-called “recreational” demand.
The sector, updated less than a month ago, had elapsed 321 tons of bottles, or 135 tons of gas, since May, on the national territory. The diverted use of this gas (molecule N2O), mainly used for the siphons of whitlly or in the context of anesthesia in hospitals, has become very popular, despite the serious health risks incurred. The sheltered merchandise in the NOisiel hangar was resold on the Snapchat application, or, more classically, on deal points, in the form of balloons ready to consume or in bottles sold 25 euros coin. This was the case in Villeurbanne, from which the investigations started, at the end of the summer.
Arrested in the middle of the night at Bourget
Taking such a place of sale at La Sauche, the Rhodanian police officers first discovered in Saint-Etienne a first storage box, concealing nearly 4 tons of prooxide. They then identify several carriers located in Genas (Rhône), in Montélimar (Drôme) and Brie-Comte-Robert (Seine-et-Marne), charged with recovering the goods stored in an abandoned farm in the Paris region.
The procedure is immutable. The orders of deliveries are all passed by one and the same shipping company, domiciled in Nangis (Seine-et-Marne), baptized “Doljinsuren”. The merchandise is addressed to the same recipient, a certain Jonathan Sway. After several weeks of technical investigations and surveillance, this mysterious individual, buyer of “Proto” at an industrial rate, turns out to be a false identity. The man is 34 years old and officially presents himself as an entrepreneur. When he managed his activities related to “hilarious gas”, the presumed trafficker jungs with a dozen telephone lines. As for the Doljinsuren company, responsible for shipments, it was a ghost society and the places of delivery were changed at the last minute, to blur the slopes.
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