Very large-scale police operation in Nîmes at Mas de Mingue: around a hundred police officers deployed for arrests

The Raid took part this Tuesday at dawn in the arrests in the Mas de Mingue district

Dog teams to search for drugs or money mobilized this Tuesday, April 23, 2024. HOCINE ROUAGDIA

La police judiciaire, la Sûreté départementale du Gard, de l’Hérault ont multiplié les arrestations. HOCINE ROUAGDIA

Les hommes encagoulés du Raid ont participé aux interpellations. HOCINE ROUAGDIA

Police du Gard et de l’Hérault déployées pour l’opération de ce mardi. HOCINE ROUAGDIA

Les policiers ont investi plusieurs sites du Mas de Mingue. HOCINE ROUAGDIA

Suspects were arrested at Mas de Mingue as part of a vast operation bringing together more than a hundred police officers. Drug trafficking would be at the center of an investigation opened for several weeks. Le Raid, the Gard and Hérault police mobilized for this very large-scale device.

Very large police operation this Tuesday, April 23 in the east of the city with police deployments in the Mas de Mingue and Courbessac sector and at Chemin-Bas-d'Avignon . The mobilization of the police did not go unnoticed this morning and the large number of investigators seem to mean that a wave of arrests has been triggered in this neighborhood, very affected by drug trafficking . But at this stage of the operation, the authorities have not revealed the motive for this very large-scale device. However, recent cases of shootings and turf wars linked to drug trafficking suggest that the dragnet is linked to drug trafficking.

Very large-scale operation

According to our information, the case would be led by an investigating judge from the Nîmes judicial court who would have been responsible for several months for a large-scale judicial investigation involving numerous people suspected of gravitating around a network of suspected traffickers. More than a hundred police officers from the interdepartmental direction of the Gard national police would have positioned teams, particularly in the Mas de Mingue district which had not experienced any operational operations ;scale for many years.

Departmental security of Gard and Hérault. HOCINE ROUAGDIA

Judicial police, departmental security of Gard, Hérault, dog teams

The investigations are underway, as are the searches carried out by the Nîmes police officers. Which were supported by Raid teams to carry out arrests on potentially dangerous targets. Judicial police teams, Departmental Security of Gard and Hérault, dog teams with dogs specialized in drug and banknote detection were mobilized for the operation directed according to our information by the interdepartmental director of the national police.