Marseille: two police commissioners indicted for complicity in a 360-kilo cocaine smuggling operation

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ER Editor: Le Figaro is also carrying the story. Browsers will translate —

Marseilles: Ofast chief and deputy under investigation in suspected corruption case

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Marseille: two commissioners indicted for complicity in a 360-kilo cocaine smuggling operation

Two senior Ofast officials in Marseille have been indicted in Paris. They are suspected of having covered up the concealment of hundreds of kilos of cocaine. A scandal that is shaking up the French anti-drug industry.

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They wanted to clean up the housing estates, but they dirtied their own records.

In Marseilles, the brigade supposed to be waging war on the white [powder] has apparently got its hands dirty. The local head of the Office anti-drug (Ofast) and its right-hand man have just been indicted in Paris. Charges? Nothing less than complicity in forgery, invasion of privacy, and for good measure, violation of the secrecy of an organized crime investigation. Nothing less.

The air-conditioned offices of the police station are awash with the scent of a legal scandal. And this time, it’s not a Netflix series, it’s the Republic.

When the police flirt with the trafficking they’re supposed to be dismantling

The story begins in February 2023, with an anonymous tip (the kind of note you never want to receive before your morning coffee). A container of cocaine coming straight from Colombia quietly disembarked at the port of Marseille, its final destination the Paris region.

On paper, 200 kg of powder were to be closely monitored by Ofast. But in practice? Nearly 400 kg vanished into thin air, thanks to a logistical sleight of hand. The result: zero arrests, and an investigation closed in January 2024. A curtain. Or almost.

Translation: France: Marseille Ofast leaders charged after disappearance of 400kg of cocaine – The chief commissioner of the Marseille anti-narcotics office and her deputy have been charged in connection with an investigation opened for “importation and trafficking of narcotics as part of an organized group.”

France : les patrons de l’Ofast de Marseille mis en examen après la disparition de 400kg de cocaïne
– La commissaire divisionnaire de l’office anti-stupéfiant marseillais et son adjoint ont été mis en examen dans le cadre d’une enquête ouverte pour « importation et trafic de… pic.twitter.com/ybbZCGQjXT

— Anadolu Français (@aa_french) June 26, 2025

This is because certain members of the judicial police, who saw the problem coming faster than a narco at Roissy, reported it. And that’s where the IGPN comes in. Spoiler: it was so bad that the Junalco (the national anti-organized crime brigade, the big-bore version) took over the case.

360 kilos gone and the cops in their sights

What they discovered is mind-boggling: murky exchanges between police officers and third parties, a shipment of 360 kilos of coke that changed hands without the slightest hierarchical stamp, and above all, a proper concealment of the actual quantities that arrived in the country.

And now no one is laughing (well, except perhaps the cartels).

Two Ofast Marseille police officers had already been remanded in custody in April. A third joined them in June, but with a little special treatment: judicial supervision, no jail time. This week, it’s the chiefs’ turn, with a ban on setting foot in any police station, particularly those in the Bouches-du-Rhône region, and on speaking to anyone connected with the case.

“She will contest everything, tooth and nail”, promises her lawyer

Louis Cailliez, the lawyer for the Chief Superintendent who has fallen from her pedestal, swears that his client has “nothing to reproach herself for”. She claims that her honor has been outraged, her probity scorned, and denounces the “instrumentalization” of the case. Classic defense, 2025 style.

But it’s hard to sell a “clean hands” operation when your hands are powdered.

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Featured image source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPbbJE1Cisc

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