After a quarter of a century on the run, the oldest drug baron wanted in northern Morocco has been placed in pre-trial detention in prison. He will be retried for a criminal case in which he was convicted in absentia to 10 years in prison.
A 37-year-old French national of Turkish origin was arrested on Friday by the national security elements at the Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca.
The court of first instance in Al Hoceima recently sentenced a dangerous drug trafficker by helicopter to ten years in prison.
A father and his son were attacked in the commune of Bab Taza, in the vicinity of Chefchaouen. An armed attack linked to a conflict in the drug trafficking environment.
Investigators found drugs and cash at the home of Imam Ismaïl, head of the Bleuets mosque, threatened with closure, and father of the 21-year-old young man, known to the police, who was thrown from the third floor by a hooded five-man commando in the night from Monday to Tuesday in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône).
The former leader of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) and former president of the Tangier-Tetouan region, Ilyas Omari, recently claimed that the Mocro Maffia is a "construction of Dutch politicians".
The elements of the judicial police in Fez, in coordination with the services of the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), arrested on Friday a Franco-Algerian wanted by the French authorities for international drug trafficking.
Mounir Erramach, alias Pablo Escobar of the North, a former drug baron detained at the central prison of Kénitra, has regained his freedom.
The Moroccan police have dealt a blow to the drug trafficking in Tangier. The court of first instance of the city has sentenced the famous cocaine baron, "Batata", to eight years in prison and his associate, "Chiker", to five years.
The information that Mounir Erramach, alias the Pablo Escobar of the North , former drug baron currently detained in the central prison of Kenitra, has regained his freedom, is false.
Customs officers and police officers thwarted, last Saturday, an attempt to traffic narcotics at the Bab Sebta border post. It is a Moroccan residing abroad .
On the run in Morocco, the leader of a drug trafficking network active in Canteleu (Seine-Maritime) was sentenced in absentia to the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of two million euros by the Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) court.