The far-right Vox party of Ceuta proposes the installation of a permanent post of the Civil Guard on the Persil (Leila) islet in order to strengthen "control and surveillance" in the Strait of Gibraltar, which has become a hub for drug and human trafficking.
The judicial police elements of the port of Tanger Med thwarted on Thursday an attempt to traffic 22.8 kilograms of cocaine hidden on board a truck of international transport registered in Morocco.
The Spanish police arrested on Sunday at Malaga airport a 38-year-old Moroccan who was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the Italian authorities for drug trafficking offenses.
The police and the Civil Guard have intercepted in the El Príncipe neighborhood in Ceuta narcodrones loaded with hashish from Morocco. These devices can carry up to 25 kilos of drugs per flight.
An investigator from the narcotics brigade claims that the cannabis sold in Marseille comes from Morocco. He recommends that the war against drug trafficking be waged "at the source".
The Observatory of the North of Human Rights (ONDH) denounces "suspicious money laundering operations by drug trafficking networks and mafias operating between Morocco and several European countries such as Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, particularly in the real estate sector" and calls for an investigation.
Meryem, a 56-year-old Moroccan, incarcerated at the Fontcalent prison (Alicante) since July for drug trafficking, died on August 14 from a heart attack. She had requested provisional release for health reasons, which the judge had rejected.
A 37-year-old Moroccan was killed by a stab wound to the chest in Saint-Malo on August 14. A drug case would be the origin of this murder.
A special unit composed of elements from the royal gendarmerie brigade of Ksar El Kebir and the provincial command of Larache are conducting investigations into the crash of a small plane. The aircraft would have been used by drug traffickers.
The Civil Guard, thanks to strong citizen collaboration, proceeded to arrest two men, suspected drug traffickers, in Granada. In total, more than 700 kilos of Moroccan hashish were seized.
The mobile customs unit of Agadir carried out, on Friday, August 6, 2021, the seizure of more than two tons of cannabis resin in the rural commune of Bounaamane, in the vicinity of Tiznit.
Twelve individuals, including Moroccans, members of a drug trafficking network, have been sentenced by the Court of First Instance in Liège.