Franco-Algerian Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 24 Years in Morocco for Espionage

The defendant was arrested by Moroccan security services during an operation to dismantle an international drug trafficking network. This Algerian national naturalized French entered Moroccan territory through the Sebta border with a false identity document. He left France where he was detained for his involvement in international drug trafficking networks, reports the daily Assabah.

According to sources from the daily, the defendant would have been recruited by the French and Spanish intelligence services in 2009, while he was staying in Spanish prisons after a conviction for international drug trafficking, to infiltrate drug trafficking networks in Spain, in several other European countries and even in Morocco. He has about twenty collaborations with these services, the same sources specify.

The Franco-Algerian is also involved in cases of kidnapping and torture with ransom demands in Morocco. After his arrest, he admitted the facts he is accused of. The Rabat Court of Appeal recently sentenced him to 24 years in prison.