On September 12, 2025, the Paris prosecutor confirmed the dismantling of the darknet platform “Dark French Anti System” (DFAS), it has been active since 2017 and was the last major French-speaking darknet marketplace, it allowed drug sales, personal data trading, weapons and criminal tools. Two men were arrested on September 8: the alleged creator, born in 1997, and an active contributor, born in 1989. More than 6 bitcoins, worth about €600,000, were seized. The investigation, launched by Cyberdouanes in 2023, uncovered over 12,000 members and 110,000 published messages. This operation closes a series of successive dismantlings carried out by French authorities since 2018.

DFAS was the last major French-speaking darknet marketplace still active in 2025. Its shutdown follows a series of take downs: La Main Noire in 2018, French Deep Web in 2021, Le Monde Parallele that same year, and Cosa Nostra in 2024. Each closure had temporarily displaced users, but DFAS succeeded in capturing a large share of these migrations.

The Paris prosecutor’s announcement thus marks a turning point: the French-speaking darknet is now without a central hub. Criminal exchanges are dispersing across foreign platforms or smaller, harder-to-trace channels, complicating both monitoring and enforcement.

Source:https://www.france24.com/fr/info-en-continu/20250912-drogue-armes-donn%C3%A9es-personnelles-une-importante-plateforme-du-darknet-d%C3%A9mantel%C3%A9e

Twitter report:

The #cybercriminalité (J3) anti-trafficking section of the

@parquetdeParis

opened a judicial investigation today into the activities of the ” 𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙝 𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙞 𝙎𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 ” platform (DFAS) on the darknet. Find our press release