The sun shone this Monday, April 8 in Avallon (Yonne). But spirits were clouded. “For once we are stealing the spotlight from Vézelay in the media, we cannot say that it is very positive! tries to smile Gérard, a forty-year-old executive in a public administration. I've never seen so many cameras here. It’s like being in Auxerre before a football match! Unfortunately, it's for a dirty deal. »
In this town of less than 7,000 inhabitants, where the Marquis de Vauban has his statue, the ramparts cannot act as a dam to the hurricane which fell on the city. Since Sunday, everyone has only been talking about “the affair”. The incredible discovery on Sunday, during a search carried out as part of a narcotics investigation, of 70 kilos of cannabis and 1 kilo of cocaine in a house belonging to the mayor, Jamilah Habsaoui, a house that she He didn't live there though. The elected official was placed in police custody, along with five other people, including two of her brothers. If one of the latter is already known for dealing with psychotropic drugs, part of the challenge of the investigation will be to determine whether the drugs had been stored there without the mayor's knowledge or not.
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