12 arrested as Algiers gendarmes seize 400 kg of treated kif
Algiers gendarmes dismantled a cross-border trafficking network on 28 June 2026, arresting 12 people and seizing four quintaux (about 400 kg) of treated cannabis, Algeria's defence ministry said. Officers also took 2,966 psychotropic tablets, ten tourist vehicles, a motorcycle, phones and more than a billion centimes in cash.
Algiers gendarmes of the National Gendarmerie’s drug and psychotropic substances
service dismantled a cross-border organised-crime network on Sunday 28 June
2026, Algeria’s defence ministry said.[1]Gendarmes arrested 12 drug
traffickers in the operation, the ministry said.[1]
Officers seized four quintaux of treated kif, roughly 400 kg of a processed
cannabis product.[1]The same operation also took 2,966 psychotropic tablets,
which are not part of the cannabis figures.[1]Gendarmes seized ten tourist
vehicles, a motorcycle, phones and cash estimated at more than one billion
centimes.[1]
Ennahar reported the same operation as at least twelve arrests, nearly four
quintaux of treated kif, 2,966 psychotropic tablets, vehicles, motorcycles, cash
and phones.[2]Ennahar attributed the operation to the gendarmerie’s anti-drug
service and said the defence ministry announced it in a communiqué.[2]The
ministry said the operation added to others that had blocked attempts to bring
such substances into the country and showed the readiness of army units of all
branches against organised crime.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
12
Cannabis
400 kg
Value (official estimate)
DZD 1,000,000
Agency type
Gendarmerie
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (400 kg)
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Land border
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Horizonshorizons.dzFRDémantèlement d’un réseau transfrontalier du crime organisé à Alger
Ennahar Onlineennaharonline.comFRAlger : un réseau criminel transfrontalier démantelé, près de 4 quintaux de cannabis saisis
Open questions the AI reported
The 28 June 2026 date is the day the defence ministry's communiqué names and the day both outlets published; the sources give no separate date for the arrest or the search.
No count of plants or fields and no street value for the kif was published; the cash seized is a money amount, not a valuation of the cannabis.
About 400 kg is a conversion of 'quatre quintaux' at 100 kg per quintal, not an independently stated weight.
The sources do not name the 12 detainees, say whether any were charged, or report a court outcome.
Both outlets repeat the defence ministry communiqué and no independent account was found.
The Ennahar page lists separate defence ministry reports on other cannabis seizures near the Moroccan border, which are different events left out here.
Algiers police arrested six people suspected of running a neighbourhood gang that intimidated residents of Draria, seizing 19.6 grams of processed cannabis alongside cocaine, psychotropic tablets, bladed weapons and suspected drug proceeds. The six were presented before the public prosecutor at the Chéraga court.
Béjaïa police arrested nine people in a drug-trafficking investigation that began in Oued Ghir and continued with searches in Barbacha and Saket. Officers seized a piece of Indian hemp alongside pregabalin and ecstasy tablets; seven were remanded and two placed under judicial supervision.
Algiers judicial police arrested four people, including a woman, in Chéraga over an alleged organised drug-trafficking network. Officers seized just over 7 kg of treated kif alongside cocaine, cash, vehicles and paraphernalia before referring the suspects to the Bir Mourad Raïs prosecutor.
Algeria's National Gendarmerie arrested 33 people, including a minor, and seized 176 kg of processed cannabis in Algiers on 4 November 2026. The defence ministry said the operation dismantled two cross-border criminal networks and also involved cocaine and psychotropic tablets.
