
Drug Trafficking Surges in North Africa as COVID-19 Diverts Security Focus
While it should regress, drug trafficking is intensifying in the Maghreb, particularly in Morocco, during this confinement period.

While it should regress, drug trafficking is intensifying in the Maghreb, particularly in Morocco, during this confinement period.

Four young hackers were recently arrested for having broadcast a pornographic video on the distance learning platform of a private educational institution.

A police inspector was forced to use his service weapon after six individuals violated the state of health emergency in Kenitra. At least, this is what the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN) claims.

The trial of the French national, accused of having massacred the sheep of a young shepherd in Mansouria, near Mohammedia, has been postponed to May 11.

An individual was arrested on Monday evening by elements of the National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) . He is accused of having inflicted blows with a bladed weapon, resulting in the death of an individual in Al Fida-Mers Sultan, in Casablanca .

A judicial investigation has been opened to determine the circumstances of the stone throwing attack that a police patrol was the victim of. The incident occurred in Kenitra , during the arrest of three individuals suspected of violating the state of health emergency, possession of bladed weapons and threatening people and property.

Three individuals were arrested yesterday, Monday, in Casablanca, with 7.228 tons of drugs destined for international trafficking.

The lateral defender of the Wydad of Casablanca , Mohamed Ennahiri, was arrested last Sunday in El Jadida, along with his fiancée, for violating the state of health emergency.

The elements of the prefectural service of the judicial police of Fez proceeded, on Saturday, May 2, to the arrest of two individuals aged 44 and 23, for their alleged links with a drug trafficking network. This arrest was only possible thanks to the precise information provided by the services of the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST).

A 21-year-old man was arrested while posing as a police officer in Kenitra.

An investigation has been opened by the Taroudant judicial police brigade following the knife attack, on Monday, on a French tourist.

An individual placed under medical supervision at the provincial hospital of Beni Mellal died on Sunday, May 3, according to the Beni Mellal police prefecture.