Moroccan Man Jailed for Impersonating Drug Baron on Spanish TV

The Court of First Instance in Tangier has handed down its verdict on the Moroccan fake Escobar: 4 months in prison. He was prosecuted for false allegations, trade in illicit products and complicity, according to the media Noonpresse.

The case dates back to the beginning of May 2019. A Spanish channel, TV Cuatro, had gone to Morocco to make a report on drug and psychotropic trafficking. The reporters of this channel had first made a man living in Ceuta believe that they were part of an association fighting against drug addiction and that the channel wanted to make a video to combat drug addiction. He then took them to his friend, the famous car park attendant in Tangier.

To this man, the reporters said they wanted to shoot a film about a drug baron. For this purpose, they offered him 2,000 dirhams to play this role, which he accepted. And he found himself claiming, in front of the camera, that he was an untouchable drug dealer, immune to all security and judicial proceedings, that he earned huge sums of money (180,000 euros per month) and that he had no scruples about the psychotropic pills he was selling being sold in schools and making consumers violent.

An investigation by the DGSN allowed to understand all this. Thus, the car park attendant and his friend from Ceuta were arrested.