Overview
- The tribunal correctionnel de Lille imposed a 20‑year prison term with a two‑thirds period of sûreté that limits early release.
- Judges also ordered a €1 million fine, and Bouguettaia heard the decision by videoconference.
- Prosecutors had sought 9 and 15 years in two of the three cases retried, and he was acquitted in the third due to doubt.
- The dossiers involved seizures totaling more than two tonnes of cocaine routed via Le Havre in shipments such as beef gelatin, wood planks and vacuum‑packed tuna.
- Authorities described him as the leader of an organization with about 30 accomplices already convicted, and he faces a separate Paris investigation tied to a 2.5‑tonne container.