The Judicial Police Prefectural Service of Marrakech successfully apprehended, on Monday, October 14, a Moroccan football player, for possession of psychotropic substances and cannabis resin.
Four people were arrested on Wednesday as part of a case of trafficking in cannabis resin and herb between Morocco and France. Some 600 kilos of drugs would be at stake, according to a statement from the French gendarmerie.
A Moroccan couple residing in France was arrested at the border post of Ceuta , in possession of 9 and a half kilos of cannabis resin and a sum of 100,000 dirhams.
The Tanger Appeal took place three years ago. It resulted from the International Colloquium on Cannabis and Drugs. Its participants had launched an appeal for the decriminalization of the consumption of this drug. Initiatives have since multiplied in the same direction. One of the latest is that of the Council of the Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma region, which has decided to finance a feasibility study on the exploitation of the properties of cannabis for therapeutic and pharmacological purposes.
French customs officers arrested a Polish truck driver on Friday, September 6, transporting 917 kg of cannabis resin.
Constantly monitored, the Strait of Gibraltar is the circuit par excellence used by drug traffickers to hug the coast and flood Europe. With substantial means, they are the target of the Spanish Guardia civil and police.
A traffic of 700 kilograms of cannabis resin from the beach of Assilah was thwarted by elements of the local brigade of the Judicial Police attached to the police station of the city of Asilah, on Friday, August 30, 2019, according to a statement from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN).
An attempt to traffic cannabis resin was thwarted by the Moroccan customs at the Port of Tangier on Tuesday, August 27. A couple of Moroccans residing abroad (MREs) tried to smuggle a quantity of 460 kilograms, carefully hidden in the bodywork of their 4x4 car, in the form of slabs.
About twenty people were arrested on Thursday, July 4, 2019, following about thirty searches in the Brussels region. Members of the same family from Anderlecht, they are the alleged main perpetrators of a drug trafficking operation from Morocco.
This is undoubtedly one of the largest drug seizures in recent years. This Sunday, July 7, 2019, evening, the police services seized just over 27 tons of cannabis resin (chira).
An attempt to traffic 20 kg of cannabis resin has just been thwarted at the Bab Sebta crossing point, by a joint brigade of customs and police.
According to a report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Morocco ranks first among the world’s producers of cannabis. 70% of European consumption of this substance is provided by the Kingdom.