
Two Albanian citizens have been sentenced to 30-40 months in prison, who are accused of cultivating a cannabis plantation in a former kebab shop on the Rechtestraat in Lille. Police discovered a total of 1,045 cannabis plants there on March 26. After an anonymous report about a cannabis plantation in an empty fast food shop on the Rechtestraat in Lille, the police first investigated the building with a thermal camera, foreign media wrote .
Investigators also raided the former kebab restaurant in the center of Lille on Sunday, March 26. The police discovered there a cannabis plantation with a total of 1045 cannabis plants, spread over four cultivation rooms. The building also contained growing containers for a total of 3,374 cannabis plant cuttings. Electricity has been illegally removed from the grid.
A 35-year-old Albanian; who was in the building at the time of the search, was arrested and questioned by the police. He stated that the plantation was already in use in December 2022 and that there would have been two harvests. According to the research, the total income reached 300,960 euros.
The 35-year-old appointed another compatriot, 28-year-old AM, as a collaborator to take care of the cannabis plants. The court sentenced OC and AM to an effective sentence of thirty months and forty months respectively. They both must also pay a fine of 8,000 euros. The court has confiscated a capital gain of 100 thousand euros. (A2 Televizion)