
Moroccan Drug Traffickers Jailed for Kidnapping and Torture in Spain's Cádiz Province
The Cádiz court sentenced two Moroccan brothers, drug traffickers, to eight years in prison for having kidnapped and tortured their business partner for months.

The Cádiz court sentenced two Moroccan brothers, drug traffickers, to eight years in prison for having kidnapped and tortured their business partner for months.

Elements of the prefectural service of the judicial police of Tangier successfully thwarted an attempt at international drug and hashish trafficking on Sunday.

The Civil Guard of Tarragona has proceeded to dismantle two networks of Moroccan hashish trafficking to Europe. In total, 10 tons of drugs were seized, and 10 traffickers as well as 51 other people were arrested.

The Criminal Chamber of the National Court has ordered the extradition to Morocco of a young man from Nador, arrested in Ceuta last August for cocaine trafficking.

Seven foreign nationals were arrested on Tuesday at Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca. They are four Bulgarians and three Iranians aged between 28 and 68, involved in the activities of an international network of human trafficking and illegal immigration.

As Pedro Sanchez is visiting Morocco, the Official State Gazette (BOE) has published this Thursday an agreement between Spain and Morocco on cooperation in the field of security and the fight against crime in all its forms (terrorism, illegal immigration, human trafficking and drug trafficking, etc.).

The Spanish Civil Guard has carried out a large-scale anti-drug operation in Majorca and Tarragona, leading to the seizure of 1,400 kilos of Moroccan hashish and more than 170,000 euros.

The home of Moroccan Marzouk Doudah, a dangerous criminal from Antwerp, was attacked on Saturday by armed individuals on the Boomsesteenweg in Wilrijk, Belgium. No injuries were reported.

A Franco-Algerian, who was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the French authorities for drug trafficking, was arrested on Tuesday in Tangier.

Former kickboxer Omar G., also an Antwerp drug baron, was arrested in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, at the beginning of the week. Belgium could request his extradition.

While undergoing training at the mobile barracks of the Royal Gendarmerie of Nouaceur to become a post commander, a gendarmerie sergeant was arrested for his alleged involvement in an international drug trafficking network.

The elements of the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN), assisted by gendarmes from Orléans and Eure-et-Loir, intercepted, on March 10, two cars (a "scout" and a "carrier") transporting 558.4 kilos of Moroccan cannabis resin on the A10 at the level of Châtellerault.