Just like the first one, the second request for recusal filed against a judge by the lawyers of Dikke Nordin El Hajjioui, who is being prosecuted in the "Bombs and Grenades" case, met the same fate: rejection.
On the run in Morocco, a drug trafficker has planned a vendetta. While his target, in France, escaped him after five assassination attempts, two of the latter’s relatives have lost their lives.
The Moroccan-origin drug trafficker Othman El Ballouti, arrested in early December 2024 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and extradited to Belgium, intends to plead guilty in exchange for a reduced sentence.
The Évry criminal court sentenced Amar K., 72 years old, and his accomplice Naour Addine T., 50 years old, to prison for importing cannabis resin from Spain via Morocco.
A spectacular police operation targeting a suspected drug baron has ended in failure in the province of Nador. The escape of the main suspect shows possible local complicity and has revealed new details about the organization of this powerful criminal network.
The trial of Abdelwahab G., a Moroccan drug baron convicted at first instance in October 2024, opened on Wednesday before the Brussels Court of Appeal.
The alleged drug baron nicknamed "Ould Haouat" has reached the end of his run. The National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) of Casablanca succeeded, at the end of last week, in apprehending this drug trafficker who had long evaded the security services in the Gharb region.
An international cooperation operation has allowed the handover to Belgium of two individuals considered as major figures of organized crime in Antwerp. Arrested in Dubai where they had taken refuge, these men who were the subject of Interpol red notices, are accused of large-scale drug trafficking, the constitution of a criminal organization and money laundering. One of them is of Moroccan origin.
Arrested on Tuesday evening by the brigade against criminal gangs in Salé, the drug baron "Moussa" whose ultra-luxurious wedding organized in the Zeghanghane region had caused controversy, was placed in detention in the Selouane prison, on the orders of the public prosecutor’s office in Nador.
After more than a decade on the run, one of the alleged logisticians of the cannabis trafficking between Morocco and France was arrested this week in Paris. Nicknamed "Mounir", this 49-year-old man was a priority target for the anti-narcotics services.
Ameur Mansouri, 49 years old, one of the most wanted drug traffickers by the Central Office for the Fight Against Illicit Drug Trafficking (OFAST), was arrested on Thursday by the elements of the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) of Versailles, near the Pasteur metro station (15th arrondissement), while he was stuck in a traffic jam.
Moussa "Falcon", the drug baron who became known to the general public for his involvement in the famous controversial wedding of Zeghanghane, was questioned on Friday on no less than 51 cases.