Royal Gendarmerie

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• Moroccan Architect Claims French General Sought Military Base Information
  18 May 2019, by Amine

  A Moroccan architect has just stirred up the Moroccan security services after telling the police that a French general was spying on Morocco, and more specifically its military infrastructure.
  A Moroccan architect, at night and well-dressed, went to a police station (tourist police) in Marrakech and, according to Assabah, the source of this information, asked to see an official to share highly sensitive and important information.
  As soon as he was put in contact with a senior officer, (…)

• Moroccan Gendarme Killed in Hit-and-Run: Second Suspect Arrested in Tangier
  24 May 2019, by Amine

  Last week, a gendarme was hit head-on by a car he was trying to stop to issue a ticket to the driver. The gendarme died. The driver was arrested. And his accomplice has just been arrested as well.
  The driver who was arrested on Wednesday last week provided the investigators with enough information for them to be able to proceed with the arrest of the one who was accompanying him in the car. This was done last Friday.
  Indeed, the accomplice was arrested in downtown Tangier, according to (…)

• Moroccan Man Arrested for Secretly Recording Gendarme with Hidden Camera
  21 May 2019, by Kamal

  There’s no joking around with the law. For attempting to film his discussion with a chief warrant officer of the Royal Gendarmerie, an individual has just been placed in detention after a complaint from the agent.
  The individual, in his forties, was wearing a spy camera on the button of his shirt and was amused to film his discussion with a chief warrant officer of the gendarmerie brigade in the commune of Sidi Slimane.
  According to the daily Al Akhbar, the chief warrant officer noticed (…)

• Morocco School Officials Face Prosecution After Students’ Flag Prank Sparks Controversy
  4 June 2019, by Amine

  Students at a primary school would have, no doubt to play given their age, changed a Moroccan flag with a white sheet. And the thing took on a lot of importance... A lot of importance.
  On May 17, six students aged 8 to 11 years old replaced a flag attached to a mast, in a school, with a white sheet. A whole story followed...
  The Huffpost writes in this sense: "The director of the rural primary school Issaguen and two teachers will be summoned before the prosecutor in the coming days, (…)

• Moroccan Coast Guard Seizes 800 Kilos of Cannabis in Major Drug Bust
  9 December 2019, by Bladi.net

  An attempt to traffic 800 kilos of drugs was thwarted by a patrol from the maritime gendarmerie company of Assilah.
  The routine control operation carried out by this patrol made it possible to seize this large quantity of drugs, divided into 30 packages containing cannabis resin, reports Barlamane.
  According to the same media, another individual was arrested at the same location by elements of the FAR control center, in possession of 5 kilos of drugs in a car.
  An investigation has (…)

• Retired Doctor Found Dead in Suspected Hit-and-Run Near Khouribga Highway
  19 December 2019, by Ginette

  The lifeless body of a retired doctor was found in Khouribga on the road connecting the city to the highway entrance. An investigation has been launched to elucidate this mysterious discovery.
  The victim was in the habit of taking this stretch where he was found, for his daily walking exercises. Pending the determination of the actual cause of death, everything seems to suggest that the retired doctor was hit by a careless driver, reports Barlamane.
  The gendarmes have started viewing (…)

• Moroccan Hiker Found Dead After Group’s Mountain Trek Goes Awry
  1 January 2020, by Kamal

  Leaving last Sunday for a hike in the Telokit mountains of Azilal, a group of friends did not know that they would lose track of one of their own. Getting lost on the beaten paths of the winding mountains, the young man, originally from Fez, could not find his way back.
  After unsuccessful searches, the hikers called the Royal Gendarmerie, who found the lifeless body of their companion the next day, Monday, lying at the bottom of a precipice.
  An investigation has been opened by the (…)

• Violent Clash Between Locals and Nomads in Morocco’s Safi Province Leaves 12 Injured
  19 June 2019, by Amine

  Several people were injured, some very seriously, in what appears to be a battle in the El Bkhati region, dependent on the province of Safi. The conflict pitted residents of the region against nomadic tribes coming from localities in the South.
  No less than 12 people were taken to the Safi hospital after bloody clashes between residents of Douar Oulad Houmane and nomadic Sahrawis. Two of the hospitalized people would suffer from very serious injuries. The nomads arrived in the El Bkhati (…)

• Notorious Female Drug Kingpin Arrested in Morocco’s Sidi Slimane Region
  23 July 2019, by Sylvanus

  The Royal Gendarmerie has arrested the most famous drug trafficker in the Sidi Slimane region.
  She is no longer free to move around. The most famous female drug dealer in the Sidi Slimane region, originally from Ouled Hassine, has been caught in the net of the Royal Gendarmerie since Wednesday, July 17, reports the Arabic-language daily Al Akhbar.
  "The gendarmerie elements set a trap for A.K., the biggest drug trafficker in the region, and arrested her in flagrante delicto, in (…)

• Search Intensifies for 5 Missing Moroccan Sailors off Safi Coast
  1 January 2020, by Kamal

  A large combing operation of the Safi coastline was launched by the elements of the Royal Gendarmerie and the Royal Navy, without results so far.
  The authorities of the city had received on Sunday morning an alert of disappearance of the boat "Bouallam" and the five sailors on board, presumably swept away by the waves.
  This part of the Atlantic coast has experienced several episodes of drowning of fishermen who went to retrieve the fishing nets offshore, without the possibility of (…)