Former French international Samir Nasri in police custody for drug-related offenses

Former French international Samir Nasri was taken into police custody in Paris on July 9, 2026, for organized money laundering linked to an alleged drug trafficking network. The investigation focuses on his past role as a shareholder in a nightclub in Ivry-sur-Seine, where the wife of an incarcerated drug trafficker allegedly collected large sums of cash. Nasri had already been questioned in Marseille in late June as part of the same case, and his custody was lifted without charges for now.