Four held in Algiers with 72,000 psychotropic tablets and 1.8 kg of kif
Algerian police arrested four people suspected of belonging to an organised drug-trafficking group in Hussein Dey, Algiers, and seized 72,000 psychotropic tablets, 1.8 kg of treated kif and 80 g of cocaine. The four were presented to the public prosecutor at the Hussein Dey court.
🇩🇿 Hussein Dey, Algiers · Algeria
- Arrested
- 4
- Cannabis
- 1.8 kg
- Value (official estimate)
- DZD 4,000,000
Four people suspected of belonging to an organised criminal group were arrested
by judicial police in Hussein Dey, an administrative district of Algiers, the
Algiers wilaya (province) security directorate said in a statement.[1] The
operation was carried out the previous week under the supervision of the public
prosecutor with jurisdiction, after police acted on intelligence about the
group’s trafficking in psychotropic substances.[1] The investigators’
inquiries identified the four suspects and led to their arrest.[1]
Searches and checks in the case led to the seizure of 72,000 psychotropic
tablets, 1.8 kg of treated kif (processed cannabis) and 80 g of cocaine.[1]
Police also recovered two electronic scales and 400 million centimes (4 million
dinars) in Algerian currency and 1,000 euros in foreign currency.[1] Three
vehicles said to have been used to transport the drugs were seized.[1]
Sources
- 72.000 comprimés psychotropes et 1,8 kg de kif traité saisis par la police. Horizons, 22 October 2026. In French.
Open questions the AI reported
- The police statement gives no exact date for the arrests; it says the operation was carried out 'last week', and 22 October 2026 is the date of the statement and of both articles.
- No names, ages or nationalities of the four suspects were published.
- The reports do not say what charges were brought, whether the four were held in custody or what happened after their appearance before the prosecutor.
- Both accounts reproduce the same Algiers wilaya security directorate communiqué, so the figures are the police's own and were not independently confirmed.
- The images on the two pages carry only generic captions ('psychotropes', 'Drogue kif kif traité') and no credit, so they could not be confirmed as photographs of this seizure and no media link is recorded.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Fil d'Algérie: The four suspects were presented to the public prosecutor at the Hussein Dey court at the end of the legal procedures.