Moroccan Police Implicated in Ceuta Border Smuggling Scheme, Report Finds

This report of the Parliamentary Commission on the "persistence of smuggling at Bab Ceuta, has above all highlighted the advanced precarious situation of the porters whose future is thus compromised," reports ceutaldia.com. The report also points out that nearly 200 patera-cars, out of more than a thousand, intended for porterage, belong to the Moroccan police.

According to the newspaper Akhbar Al-Youm, the report of the Parliamentary Commission mentions that "these cars enjoy privileges and belong to civil servants". Moreover, to introduce changes in this environment, Morocco is installing a new police hierarchy that will take control of the Bab Ceuta post and the neighboring town of Fnideq, in order to "stabilize the post-smuggling phase and impose security in the region," indicates Tétouan press.

It is up to Mustafa Akhy, brigadier general, and previously deputy head of the information directorate of the Tangier security department, to ensure control of the Bab Ceuta post. Meanwhile, in Fnideq, it is Brigadier General Abd al-Rahim al-Sifriywi who will be at the head of the Security Commission, succeeding Brigadier General Said al-Moughalghal, transferred to Tiflet.