Moroccan Court Denies Release for Notorious Drug Lord ’Limouni’

On Tuesday, the Court of Appeal of Tétouan rejected the request for provisional release filed by the drug baron nicknamed "Limouni". The services of the General Directorate of National Security also refused the individual waiver obtained by the accused from a retired police officer, who had been injured during an intervention aimed at arresting him. According to well-informed sources, it is the institution as a legal entity that refuses to waive its rights and protects its employees, and not the person as such, who could waive in cases of personal conflicts outside the professional framework or in cases of exchange of blows and injuries or personal disputes outside of work.

The one considered the oldest drug baron wanted in northern Morocco and one of the biggest drug traffickers, particularly of cocaine, was the target of numerous wanted notices for international drug trafficking, refusal to comply and for having caused serious injuries to a police officer. He had been on the run for 25 years and moved between northern Morocco and southern Spain, obtaining hard drugs from the city of Ceuta and the La Línea de la Concepción region in southern Spain, where the major cocaine distribution networks were active at the beginning of the new millennium.

Recently, this Moroccan-Spanish man presented himself to the police services in Fnideq, reported Al Akhbar. After his transfer to the Tétouan security wilaya where he was questioned, he was then brought before the Attorney General of the King near the Court of Appeal of Tétouan. Last Saturday, the latter ordered his placement in pre-trial detention in the local prison of Somal. Several offenses committed by the baron have been prescribed, but he will be retried for a criminal case in which he was convicted in absentia to 10 years in prison. Hearings have indeed begun for his new trial in this case. An opportunity for "Limouni" to defend himself and for justice to examine the details of this case before pronouncing a new judgment.