The Algeciras investigating court ordered the provisional detention of three Civil Guards accused of crimes against public health, corruption and membership in a criminal organization. They would be linked to drug traffickers in Morocco.
The Civil Guard has this week dismantled a network of cocaine and hashish traffickers from Morocco to southern Spain. In total, 17 people, including Moroccans, were arrested.
The plane that crashed in Tangier on November 30 was a former aircraft transporting drugs to Spain. After the arrest of the driver, a Spanish pilot, an investigation is underway to identify the instigators of this drug trafficking network.
The illegal introduction of Turkish gold in Morocco is a common practice that threatens Moroccan jewelers with considerable losses or even bankruptcies. The latter are calling on the authorities to put an end to this trafficking.
The police have carried out in recent weeks a large-scale operation to dismantle drug trafficking networks in the city of Marrakech. Several traffickers were arrested and large quantities of drugs seized.
M.J., suspected of belonging to a criminal organization active in drug trafficking between Morocco, Spain and Belgium, faces 10 years in prison. His lawyers pleaded for his acquittal on Friday before the Brussels Criminal Court.
Sofiane Hambli , the French of Algerian origin arrested in a clinic in Tangier, Morocco in October, is facing Moroccan justice. He faces heavy sentences.
Saïd Razzouki, a Dutch drug trafficker of Moroccan origin who had been living in Sabaneta, Colombia for four years and had been arrested two years ago following an international arrest warrant issued against him by Interpol, will be extradited to the Netherlands.
Drug traffickers are competing in strategy to continue their activities, despite the closure of the borders between Morocco and Spain. After drones, their new find is to transport drugs with the help of divers.
In Orvault, the police officers of the emergency police made a rather strange discovery in a semi-trailer registered in Morocco. Six people, including four Moroccans, were apprehended.
A Civil Guard rejected on Monday the drug trafficking charges against him for events dating back to 2012 at the port of Esombreras, in Cartagena, involving 17 other people of Spanish, Colombian and British nationalities.
The Civil Guard of Ceuta arrested on Saturday a Moroccan who was transporting drugs hidden in a vehicle, while he was going to Algeciras (Cadiz) with his wife and their three minor children.