The verdict will have to wait. The Antwerp court is facing a new legal maneuver by "Dikke Nordin", the alleged leader of the "Bombs and Grenades" network. His lawyers have forced a third postponement of the judgment to January 13 by appealing to the Court of Cassation.
By the end of August 2025, the Moroccan police forces seized a total of 446 tons of narcotics, including 385 tons of cannabis resin and 61 tons of kif plants, as well as 788 kg of cocaine, 1.04 kg of heroin, and 1,259,662 psychotropic tablets, according to the latest report from the Ministry of the Interior.
While traveling with her family, a young Moroccan woman was arrested in the United Arab Emirates, in possession of a significant quantity of cocaine found in her personal belongings. The Emirati authorities are investigating a possible attempt at drug trafficking.
The Moroccan police arrested Younes El Ballouti, long wanted for international cocaine trafficking, in a shisha café in Tangier. He is incarcerated in the Casablanca prison.
Prosecuted for his activity on the encrypted Sky ECC messaging service, Redouan, already convicted for drugs (cocaine and cannabis), has just received a new prison sentence.
The National Financial Intelligence Authority (ANRF) is investigating new real estate developers in Casablanca and Tanger, suspected of money laundering from cocaine trafficking.
Imad B., a Moroccan drug trafficker convicted in early December 2022 in Anderlecht, would have continued to manage his cannabis and cocaine trafficking from his cell. He would even have tried to take control of other drug dealing points and ordered an assassination.
In Morocco, the use of cocaine has become quite common during private parties organized in the discreet residences of upscale neighborhoods, the furnished apartments of chic areas, as well as nightclubs. Despite arrests and seizures, the phenomenon is growing.
Convicted to eight and five years in prison in 2019 in Versailles (Yvelines) for a cannabis trafficking operation, Brahim B. and his brother Lhassan appear to have resumed their activities upon their release from prison. The two brothers, along with eight other individuals, will be tried in September for a new drug trafficking case between Hauts-de-Seine and Essonne.
Three of the seven barons of the "Super Cartel" of the cocaine trafficking network based in Dubai are Moroccans. They are Ridouan Taghi , Othman El Ballouti and Hosni A.
The Strait of Gibraltar has become the preferred channel for international drug trafficking networks to smuggle cocaine into Europe from Morocco.
One of the men suspected of being involved in the murder of the 35-year-old Guyanese man found dead on August 23, 2022 at the foot of a hotel in Viry-Chatillon (Essonne) after being thrown out of the 6th floor of this establishment, is on the run in Morocco. On Friday, two suspects were arrested, indicted, and then incarcerated.