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• Moroccan Authorities Capture Notorious Drug Lord After 7-Year Manhunt
  6 October 2024, by Sylvanus

  The gendarmerie services under the regional command of Kénitra have put an end to the flight of the biggest baron of the Gharb who had been on the run since 2016.
  A big fish falls. Targeted by several wanted notices from several local and national security services, the notorious drug trafficker in the Gharb region nicknamed Lakraa was arrested in the locality of Kceibya in the vicinity of Kénitra, reports Al Akhbar. He had been on the run since 2016, and would have spent more than four (…)

• Moroccan Authorities Bust International Drug Ring Using Helicopters to Smuggle Cannabis to Portugal
  20 March 2023, by Sylvanus

  The national brigade of judicial investigations, under the high command of the Royal Gendarmerie, has succeeded in arresting four barons and an auxiliary forces agent as part of an investigation into drug trafficking by helicopter between Morocco and Portugal.
  The investigation into an international drug trafficking operation involving half a ton of Chira (cannabis resin) transported by helicopter from the Gharb region to Portugal has proven fruitful. The national brigade of judicial (…)

• Fès-Saïs Airport Upgrades: Terminal 1 Now Serves Domestic Flights, Enhancing Capacity and Compliance
  26 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  Terminal 1 of Fès-Saïs airport has been welcoming domestic flight passengers since November 4. This measure to separate the flows between domestic and international flight passengers aims to meet the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and to streamline traffic at terminal 2, dedicated to international flights.
  This platform will now be dedicated to national traffic, in order to comply with the recommendations of this international body, says the airport (…)

• Spanish Police Bust Fake Paternity Ring in Melilla Border Scheme
  18 December 2020, by Bladi.es

  A network of Moroccan women active in the falsification of paternity documents for their children has just been dismantled by the Spanish police in Melilla. These pregnant women cross the border to give birth and find a fictional Spanish father to register their baby in the civil registry.
  According to information provided by the police, these pregnant women wait for their delivery period to go to Melilla. Once in the Spanish enclave, they request the service of certain Spaniards. They (…)

• Massive Drug Bust: 7 Tons of Cannabis Seized in Kenitra, Morocco
  26 March 2021, by Jonas

  Some 7 tons of cannabis resin were seized on Thursday by the police services of the city of Kenitra. This new police intervention comes just hours after the seizure of 2 tons of drugs in the same city.
  According to the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN), a joint team from the prefectural judicial police service of Kenitra and the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), during intense investigations, seized 6.9 tons of drugs a few kilometers from Kenitra, (…)

• France: a Moroccan from Belgium arrested for trafficking rare animals
  31 August 2023, by Prince

  A Moroccan from Belgium, returning from vacation in Morocco, was arrested on Wednesday for animal trafficking during a check at the Sorigny toll booth. He was transporting Greek tortoises and European goldfinches, protected species.
  The environmental police officers of Indre-et-Loire, accompanied by gendarmes and customs officers, positioned themselves on Wednesday at the exit of the Sorigny toll booth on the A10 to carry out vehicle checks in order to limit the trafficking of protected (…)

• Moroccan Gendarmerie Deploys Drones to Combat Cannabis Trafficking Near Tangier
  2 December 2022, by Sylvanus

  The multiplication of cannabis storage depots in the suburbs located between Tangier and Larache is pushing the gendarmerie services to use drones to track down the traffickers.
  The drone has become a valuable tool for the services of the Royal Gendarmerie. They use this new weapon as part of a vast operation whose objective is to surround the mountainous areas to track down the cannabis storage depots that are multiplying in the suburbs located between Tangier and Larache and detect by (…)

• Beachgoers Help Capture Drug Smugglers in Spanish Coast Bust, 700kg Hashish Seized
  16 August 2021, by Prince

  The Civil Guard, thanks to strong citizen collaboration, proceeded to arrest two men, suspected drug traffickers, in Granada. In total, more than 700 kilos of Moroccan hashish were seized.
  The traffickers, coming from Morocco on a small fishing boat, were being chased by a ship from the maritime section of the Civil Guard. They managed to reach the shore and continued their race on foot on the Mecilena beach before being trapped by bathers, one of whom, a sergeant of the Civil Guard, was (…)

• Major Drug Trafficking Kingpin from Ceuta Arrested on Spain’s Costa del Sol
  23 April 2023, by Prince

  The police on Friday apprehended on the Costa del Sol the head of one of the two major drug and human trafficking networks active in Ceuta. The criminal, considered "very violent", was actively wanted.
  The gang led by Piolin, the arrested man, operated mainly in the El Príncipe Alfonso neighborhood in Ceuta and has, according to the police, 70 members of Moroccan origin, mostly minors recruited in the underprivileged neighborhoods of the autonomous city. The suspect, considered "very (…)

• Spanish Authorities Seize 18 Tons of Hashish in Major Atlantic Drug Bust
  31 December 2020, by Espagnol

  Spanish customs officers intercepted, on Tuesday, a tug loaded with nearly 18 tons of Moroccan hashish in the Atlantic waters north of the Canary Islands. Its destination would be a country on the west coast of Africa.
  The operation, codenamed "Gigante", began in the early hours of Tuesday and ended in the afternoon with the interception of a tug named Cyklop 1 about 180 miles northwest of Gran Canaria, reports La Voz de Galicia. At the helm, a customs surveillance patrol boat based in (…)