Overview

• Paris judges from the national organized crime court indicted the Marseille Ofast division chief and her deputy for falsifying public documents and breaching privacy linked to the 2023 Operation Trident shipment.
• Both officers are under judicial control with bans on policing duties, access to Bouches-du-Rhône police premises and contact with case witnesses.
• Earlier investigations by the IGPN and Junalco led to pre-trial detention of three Ofast Marseille officers on charges including drug trafficking, money laundering and criminal association.
• Authorities estimate that at least 360 kilograms of the 400-kilogram shipment vanished under police surveillance, raising corruption and collusion suspicions within the unit.
• Prosecutors are set to question whether Marseille judicial authorities had oversight of the flawed operation’s procedures.