Settling scores between drug traffickers are becoming recurrent in Brussels, a "highly disputed" territory by the various gangs including the Mocro Maffia, the Moroccan mafia . The latest, a 31-year-old man, killed by 17 Kalashnikov bullets in a shootout in Anderlecht on the night of Wednesday to Thursday.
A Moroccan from Belgium, returning from vacation in Morocco, was arrested on Wednesday for animal trafficking during a check at the Sorigny toll booth. He was transporting Greek tortoises and European goldfinches, protected species.
While in custody, a drug baron managed to escape from the police station in Souissi-Takadoum in Rabat. The judicial police elements are investigating the circumstances of this escape.
The Montpellier judicial police are conducting an investigation to shed light on the murder of a 21-year-old Moroccan in Béziers. They suspect a settling of scores related to drug trafficking.
Violent clashes between two rival groups of drug traffickers took place during the day of August 24 in the center of Tiznit . The police managed to arrest a suspect who was brought before the public prosecutor.
A French national residing illegally in Morocco was arrested by elements of the judicial police prefecture in Fez. The French justice had issued an international arrest warrant against him for his alleged involvement in a drug trafficking case.
Police from the security zone of the Tanger Med port arrested on Friday a Moroccan from France who was transporting 260 kilograms of hashish hidden in a truck with French registration.
The Maritime Captaincy of Ceuta has decided to restrict the use of jet-skis in its jurisdiction. From now on, these vehicles will no longer be able to travel more than two miles from the coast of the autonomous city or leave Spanish waters. This, in order to fight against the use of these vehicles for the trafficking of migrants and drugs from Morocco.
The Spanish police arrested on Monday in Madrid a Moroccan accused of being the "representative in Europe" of the Mexican drug trafficking network Los Zetas.
After several months of investigation, the Civil Guard has finally solved the murder of a missing Moroccan, whose lifeless body was found in Novelda (Alicante) last December. The victim was killed while trying to steal drugs from a rival gang.
Six months after the death of Ferdaous, the 11-year-old girl killed in Merksem, in the province of Antwerp, in a shooting, and whose uncle is a Moroccan drug trafficker, still refuge in Dubai, the investigators continue their investigations.
The United States has just announced the freezing of all assets of Othman El Ballouti, the presumed millionaire Antwerp drug baron, who is a refugee in Dubai and threatened by a Mexican drug lord.