Moroccan ’Pablo Escobar’ Set for Release After Two Decades in Prison

Detained at the Toulal 2 prison in Meknes, Erramach will regain his freedom in a few days. The drug trafficker, arrested in 2002 for drug trafficking and murder, was sentenced to twenty years in prison and an additional three-year sentence handed down by a special court, dissolved in 2004.

Erramach, nicknamed the "Pablo Escobar of the North", was only a cigarette seller before becoming the biggest drug trafficker in the north of the kingdom, reports Al Ayam 24. His arrest, with 30 other people including authorities from Tetouan, had caused a lot of ink and saliva.