A police officer on duty in Salé was arrested in flagrante delicto of drug possession during a security operation carried out in Kénitra, in coordination with the services of the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST).
The trial of the alleged drug baron, Reda Abakrim, alias Turbo, for the murder of Brahim Hajjaji committed in France in 2007 has been postponed again. He is also the main suspect in the murder of the husband of singer Rym Fikri.
Spain has just offered the Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie 200 night vision goggles to strengthen the fight against illegal immigration and drug trafficking in the Strait of Gibraltar.
The United Arab Emirates has extradited Nordin El Hajjioui , the suspected drug baron accused of large-scale cocaine trafficking, illegal arms trade, and drug-related violence, to Belgium. A profile of a young Belgian-Moroccan who amassed a large fortune in the criminal underworld.
The extradition of Félix Bingui alias "the Cat", one of the biggest drug traffickers in Marseille, arrested in early March in Casablanca to France will not be effective anytime soon.
Extradited by the United Arab Emirates, the drug trafficker Nordin El Hajjioui (35 years old), alias Dikke Nordin, arrived on Friday in Antwerp on a military plane that landed at the Melsbroek air base.
Migrant trafficking networks transport 20 migrants in inflatable boats from Morocco to the Costa del Sol in just half an hour and for large sums that can reach up to 20,000 euros per person.
The Moroccan police and customs thwarted, in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, an attempt to traffic drugs at the Bab Sebta crossing point.
A spectacular face-off took place on March 27 between drug traffickers and the judicial police of Casablanca. The events took place in broad daylight, on Boulevard Mohammed VI, then on the highway leading to Mohammedia.
Spain is preparing to acquire a "high-endurance" drone to strengthen its fight against drug trafficking in the Strait and in Campo de Gibraltar.
A Moroccan wanted by the Italian authorities for drug trafficking was recently arrested in Benidorm, in eastern Spain.
Elements of the Drugs and Organized Crime Unit (Udyco) of Ceuta have arrested this Thursday an individual, suspected to be close to the Mocro maffia, accused of several crimes including a kidnapping in Catalonia.