The elements of the departmental security of Bordeaux have arrested 10 people, including six who would be involved in the importation of Moroccan cannabis. They are suspected of belonging to a drug trafficking network.
After 13 years on the run, Reda Abakrim, the main suspect in the murder of Brahim Hajaji in the Cité de La Coudraie in Poissy, was arrested on December 22, 2020 in Casablanca. Considered a big shot in the export of cannabis from Morocco to France, it was ultimately his fingerprints that put an end to 13 long years of fruitless police searches.
Hemp oil and other cannabis-based cosmetic products, previously rare, are now gaining ground in Morocco. However, the legal gray areas around cannabis production are slowing down any possibility of development.
Activists and association actors are constantly calling for the legalization of cannabis cultivation in northern Morocco. Will their call finally be heard?
An individual who sent cash transfers to Morocco and seven other defendants prosecuted for trafficking in heroin, cocaine and cannabis in Alès and the surrounding villages, were sentenced to prison terms.
A French investigating judge has indicted eight alleged traffickers belonging to a Moroccan cannabis trafficking network.
Investigators from the judicial police in Evry (Essonne) carried out, on Thursday, December 10, the seizure of a ton of Moroccan cannabis and the arrest of nine individuals belonging to the same network.
The judicial police of Errachidia arrested on Tuesday an individual with a criminal record, for his alleged involvement in a drug and narcotic trafficking network.
The trial of the suspended police officer will open early next week before the court of first instance of Rabat . In pre-trial detention at the Laarjat prison (Salé), he is being prosecuted for attempted murder, setting up a criminal drug trafficking network and illegal use of his service weapon.
Many Moroccans see the Kingdom on the path to legalizing cannabis, following its vote on Wednesday, December 2, to remove this narcotic from the list of the most dangerous drugs.
The judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis seized 480 kg of cannabis resin in a warehouse in Courbevoie on November 26. Five alleged traffickers were arrested and then indicted "for money laundering, criminal conspiracy, transport, possession, acquisition and importation of drugs".
Morocco is the only country in the MENA region to have voted for the removal of cannabis from the list of hard drugs during its 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) held on Wednesday, December 2 in Vienna.