The trial of five men involved in a series of bloody settling-of-scores attacks in Saint-Ouen opened this Monday before the Seine-Saint-Denis Assize Court. El Mehdi Zouhairi , the alleged mastermind behind these operations and currently on the run in Morocco, is among the main defendants in a case marked by a hegemonic struggle over the drug trade.
The international operation "Sombra Negra" has resulted in the dismantling of the largest distribution and money laundering center linked to the cocaine trafficking to Europe . This crackdown, involving the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) of Morocco, resulted in 105 arrests and the seizure of 10 tons of drugs, a commodity that was mainly transported to Morocco before its final distribution.
The Assize Court of Seine-Saint-Denis is trying five men from this Monday for a double murder committed in 2020 in Saint-Ouen. El Mehdi Zouhairi, suspected of orchestrating this deadly expedition from Morocco to seize new drug dealing points, remains at the heart of the debates despite his absence.
A court in Tangier has sentenced a Moroccan who also holds Spanish nationality to three years in prison for cocaine trafficking . Nicknamed "Rebrab", the individual was running a criminal network operating in several cities in the north of the Kingdom.
The Moroccan police arrested on Wednesday at Rabat-Salé airport a French national of 38 years old who was the subject of an international arrest warrant. The individual is suspected of international drug trafficking and money laundering by France.
The Marseille public prosecutor’s office on Wednesday requested ten years in prison against Karim Harrat , identified as the head of an international mafia organization. The prosecution is based on the decryption of the Sky ECC messaging service to prove his role as a leader.
The manhunt came to an end this Monday. The police services arrested in Tangier a 34-year-old French national , actively sought by the judicial authorities in France. The man, whose identity has not been disclosed, was the target of an international arrest warrant for his alleged involvement in organized serious crime activities.
The trial of Karim Harrat , a presumed figure in the Marseille drug trafficking scene, arrested in Morocco in 2021, opened this Monday, January 26, before the Marseille Judicial Court.
The Royal Gendarmerie of Aïn Sebaâ, in coordination with the services of Médiouna, put an end to the activities of an international drug trafficking network after a precise surveillance operation. The intervention resulted in the seizure of more than two tons of drugs and a significant quantity of hallucinogenic tablets.
The Royal Armed Forces and the Royal Gendarmerie have been conducting night-time sweeping operations in the skies of Tangier and its surroundings for more than a week. These aerial sorties follow the suspicious intrusion of a helicopter into the airspace of the city , an operation that investigators link to international drug trafficking networks.
Drug baron Othman El Ballouti , incarcerated in the Bruges prison under a reinforced security regime, was caught in possession of a mobile phone during a check. This discovery raises questions about the effectiveness of the surveillance of high-security inmates in Belgium.
The Antwerp Correctional Court handed down its verdict this Tuesday, January 13, 2026 in one of the most closely followed cases of Belgian drug trafficking. Nordin El Hajjioui , a central figure in the underworld nicknamed "Dikke Nordin", was sentenced to 12 years in prison for leading a criminal organization specialized in the massive importation of cocaine. In addition to the prison sentence, the court ordered a fine of 12,000 euros and the confiscation of 5 million euros in criminal assets.