Spanish Border Guard Fined for Stealing Dates from Moroccan Traveler

The case, revealed by the newspaper El Faro de Ceuta, shows an act of misappropriation committed by the civil servant. During a routine inspection, the officer confiscated several boxes of dates being transported by a vehicle from Morocco, the quantity exceeding the authorized limit. The usual procedure provides for the destruction of the seized goods, but one of the boxes met a different fate.

Surveillance cameras filmed the officer packing the box of dates in a garment and transporting it inside the customs premises. At the end of his shift, an internal inspection led to the discovery of the box hidden in his backpack.

This incident triggered an investigation by the Organic Unit of the Judicial Police of Ceuta. The case was referred to the city’s investigating court. Last Monday, the guard appeared before the judge and admitted the facts. He was sentenced to one month’s fine at a daily rate of 5 euros, the equivalent of the price of a coffee in Ceuta, the same source recalls.