The Spanish police have just assigned 18 agents from the elite Special Reserve and Security Group (GRS) unit to the command of the Civil Guard of Ceuta to effectively combat drug and migrant trafficking by jet skis from Morocco.
The Civil Guard has dismantled the "El Rifain" drug trafficking network, considered extremely violent and whose leader is of Moroccan origin. In total, more than 3,000 kilos of hashish were seized and 31 people, mostly of Moroccan origin, were arrested.
The vice-president of the Bni Makada district in Tangier has just fallen victim to the Schengen visa fraud case that hit the Spanish consulate in Tangier.
The Rabat Court of Appeal sentenced on Monday R.O, alias "Temsamani", a drug baron and former president of Maghreb Athlétic de Tétouan (MAT), to 6 years in prison.
An extraordinary trial opened on Monday in Béziers. Twenty defendants, including a Moroccan, are accused of drug trafficking, arms trafficking, stolen cars, etc., and about fifty civil parties are involved. The trial is taking place under heavy security and will last ten days.
The police and royal gendarmerie services in Tangier have recently seized several 4x4 vehicles and jet skis belonging to drug traffickers.
Franco-Algerian Mohamed Djeha alias "Mimo", one of the drug barons in Marseille, and head of La Castellane, was arrested on Thursday in Oran, Algeria, after several years on the run in several countries including Morocco.
The Rabat Court of Appeal has just sentenced a Franco-Algerian, an international drug trafficker and suspected of espionage for the Spanish and French intelligence services, to 24 years in prison.
The judicial police services of Biougra arrested four drug traffickers, aged between 26 and 34, in a traditional hammam located in a popular neighborhood of the city.
The National Court will examine on Monday the Moroccan request for the extradition of Rachid Gdari, known as "El Sardina", the famous drug trafficker active in Spain for years and wanted by the Moroccan authorities for having facilitated the illegal entry into Morocco of a Spaniard.
While the real drug traffickers are in Morocco, Algeria, Dubai, the less clever ones "are killing each other on the ground" in Marseille. This Sunday, several individuals in a car opened fire, towards a vehicle killing three people, before fleeing.
The Anti-Drug Prosecutor, Rosa Ana Morán, proposes the creation of a working group with Morocco to strengthen collaboration in the fight against hashish trafficking from Morocco to the Spanish coasts via Algeciras.