COKE traffic
Prison firm for a trafficker from rue de Genève 85
A Nigerian was arrested during the search of a collective apartment. Michael Ekemezie, who died in May at the police hotel, was present.
It was in apartment n ° 3 on rue de Genève 85, known to house the rear base of cocaine traffic in the canton, that the 28 -year -old Nigerian was arrested. (Marie-Lou Dumauthioz/Tamedia)
Marie-Lou Dumauthio/Tamedia
- A Nigerian trafficker transported more than 340 grams of cocaine from France.
- The accused claims to be the victim of a plot.
- The criminal court pronounced a firm 28 month sentence.
- Michael, who died in May at the police hotel, was present during the search.
He lived in apartment n ° 3 of rue de Genève 85 In Lausanne, a place qualified by the police “Rear drug traffic basisIn the canton. Behind the door, five different studios were arranged. Robert* was arrested in one of them by the police in October 2024, alerted from a big arrival of cocaine. Before the criminal court, this 28 -year -old Nigerian shouted on Monday morning shouted in the plot. In vain.
Robert had just left prison in Italy, for organized crime in connection with prostitution, when he arrived illegally in Switzerland. He directly stayed on rue de Genève 85. It was in August 2024. The investigation established that until his arrest in October 2024, he had transported, from France to Switzerland, at least 341 gross cocaine grams, intended for the sale of the network. He also conditioned drug dumplings. He sold an indefinite quantity.
An essential link in drug trafficking
“It was not a simple dealer, as we see hundreds in the streets of Lausanne, but an active member of the network involved at all stages of this traffic which pollutes our cities. An essential link, “said the prosecution during the hearing.
However, the accused did not dismantle himself. If you found its DNA on the exterior packaging of a half-bottle, as well as on the internal nodes of two dumplings, it is because of its curiosity. His older brother, who hosted him at the rue de Genève, was himself a drug trafficker. “I wanted to try to make a dumpling of cocaine. I did not manage to tie it. He made fun of me. “
As for the 323 grams of cocaine found on his table, they were not his, but to men who left his studio just before the arrival of the police. “It’s a plot. I know there is drug trafficking in this building. I know it’s dangerous. ” What was he doing with his days? “I am a barber. I had a dozen customers a day. ”
Robert was not alone in the apartment
Robert’s lawyer insisted that he was not alone in this collective apartment at the time of the search. “There were five men in all. It is absurd to claim that all the drugs belonged to him. We are looking for a scapegoat. ” The police have however found important sums of money in other studios, as well as 18 grams of cocaine, the threshold from which the offense to the drug law is qualified as serious. And the lawyer to request that a sentence compatible with immediate release from her client is pronounced.
While the prosecution claimed a sentence of 30 months in prison, the criminal court sentenced the accused to 28 months firm from which the 305 days already spent in prison. The judges estimated his overwhelming guilt. “A heavy sentence is justified given the extent of the traffic. Other people may be involved, but its role has been major and not anecdotal. ” They also pronounced an expulsion from Swiss territory, and the Schengen space, lasting 10 years.
Michael Ekemezie present during the search
The names of the four other men, present in apartment n ° 3 on rue de Genève 85 during the police search, were greeted in audience by the lawyer of Robert. She is surprised that they too have not been implicated in this traffic. Among them was Michael Ekemezie. It is the 39 -year -old Nigerian, suspected of drug trafficking and arrested in a muscular way in the streets of Lausanne, on May 25, then died at the police hotel. The prosecution confirms that a group of people “known to the police”, including Michael Ekemezie, was well controlled that day as part of a police operation in connection with drug trafficking. “With the exception of the accused of the case judged on Monday, the other controlled people were left to go, no offense having then been noted concerning them,” said Vincent Derouand, communications manager to the public prosecutor.
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