The National Agency for the Regulation of Cannabis Activities (ANRAC) is preparing to carry out a large-scale operation to withdraw licenses from agricultural cooperatives and investors who are not in compliance.
Mohammed Ameur, Morocco’s ambassador to Brussels, reacts to allegations that Morocco turns a blind eye to 51,920 hectares of illegal cannabis crops. Allegations made by François, a young man from Anderlecht , who had stayed three times in the northern provinces, the Chefchaouen region, Ketama and the Rif mountains.
A truck registered in Morocco was intercepted in Meyzieu, near Lyon, in the night from Friday to Saturday, with an impressive quantity of cannabis resin on board.
Last year, François, a Belgian, went to Morocco to immerse himself in the free cannabis culture. The 23-year-old man said he was very impressed by these hundreds of hectares of plantations in the Rif, while the cultivation of this drug is strictly forbidden in the kingdom. Testimony.
A 46-year-old European national, whose nationality has not been disclosed, was arrested on Wednesday at Tangier International Airport in possession of 6 kg of cannabis resin .
End in Brussels of the exceptional trial of 120 people prosecuted for international cocaine and cannabis trafficking, among other things, from Morocco. The accused were sentenced to sentences ranging from a few months to 17 years in prison.
Morocco, the world’s largest producer of cannabis according to the UN, adopted a law in 2021 on the cultivation and use of cannabis for medical purposes. Since then, the legal production of this drug has increased sharply, reaching 296 tons in 2023.
Arrested in Ceuta, then incarcerated in Morocco in the context of a case of importing tens of tons of cannabis from January 1, 2016 to May 27, 2019, a Franco-Algerian loses twenty kilos in prison. He is one of the six defendants appearing before the Special Assize Court of Paris for an international trafficking.
An operation carried out by the narcotics squad of the territorial crime division (DCT), in charge of the investigations alongside the investigators of the East division of the Cenon police station and the interdepartmental judicial police service (SIPJ), with the support of the national investigation unit of the judicial police, resulted in the seizure of 400 kilos of Moroccan cannabis resin intercepted in Gironde and the arrest of eleven people.
The trial of 12 cocaine and cannabis traffickers, arrested last December following the dismantling of their network, opened on Monday, October 14 before the Narbonne court. The accused will be informed of their fate on Friday.
An investigation that began last June resulted in the seizure of 666 kg of cannabis in the Yvelines and 10 kg of cocaine found in cars in Perpignan and the arrest of several individuals involved in a drug trafficking network between Morocco and the Île-de-France region, passing through Spain and the Pyrénées-Orientales.
Accused of having written a false police custody report to justify the extraction from prison, in April 2012, of Sofiane Hambli, a major cannabis trafficker recruited as an informant, currently detained in Morocco where he has been serving a twenty-year sentence since 2022, François Thierry, former head of the Central Office for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (Ocrtis) from 2010 to 2016, appears this Monday before the criminal court of the Rhône.