Moroccan Smuggler Sentenced to 10 Years for Deadly Migrant Trafficking Operation

The axe has fallen for a hairdresser in the city of Rabat. This smuggler was sentenced to 10 years in prison, for having organized, in 2018, a migrant trafficking operation that resulted in the death of about twenty people.

The smuggler, who was acting on behalf of a clandestine immigration network, had been on the run for 2 years, Akhbarona reported. The man was demanding the sum of 20,000 dirhams for a crossing to Spain.

The last link in a criminal organization, the hairdresser had managed to escape justice for 2 years. All of his accomplices, continues the same source, had been arrested by the police.