Record 1.4 Tons of Moroccan Hashish Seized Near Montpellier in Major Drug Bust

Cannabis seizures are multiplying on the road axes near Montpellier, as is often the case in the fall. During a check at the Saint-Jean-de-Védas toll booth on the A709, the customs officers of Montpellier discovered inside a truck coming from Spain a significant quantity of "Moroccan suitcases" containing more than 1.4 tons of cannabis resin.

It is one of the largest seizures made this year in Occitanie on the South-North motorway axis, reports Midi Libre, specifying that it is still far from the 7.7 tons of cannabis seized in May 2008 in Saint-Jean-de-Védas and the five tons seized in November 2019. At the beginning of this month, on October 3, the customs officers had seized 337 kilos of resin in Millau in a truck driven by a Spaniard. He was sentenced to three years in prison.

The authorities in the region are making life difficult for drug traffickers from Morocco. On September 27, it was in Perpignan that 210 kilos of hashish, hidden in a car, were seized. The two passengers on board are in prison. A few days earlier, on September 15, 448 kilos of grass were found in Narbonne in a van heading to Germany.