Customs find 205,285 cannabis seeds in car at Bab Sebta crossing
Customs and security officers at the Bab Sebta border post stopped a Spanish-registered Hyundai Tucson entering Morocco from Ceuta on 11 May 2026 and found 205,285 cannabis seeds hidden beside the gearbox. The 41-year-old Moroccan driver, resident in Ceuta, was placed under investigation by the competent prosecutor in a case seeking the wider seed-smuggling network.
Customs and security officers at the Bab Sebta border post stopped a
Spanish-registered Hyundai Tucson on Monday 11 May 2026 as its driver prepared
to enter Morocco from Ceuta.[1]The driver, a 41-year-old Moroccan resident in
Ceuta, drew the officers’ suspicion, and a thorough search followed.[1]
Officers found 205,285 cannabis seeds, more than 205,000, in bags inside a
hiding place built beside the car’s gearbox.[1]The Moroccan newspaper
Assabah, which El Faro de Ceuta drew on, reported that the stash was hidden
tightly in the compartment beside the gearbox.[2]
The driver was placed under investigation under the supervision of the competent
prosecutor, who is to establish the possible extensions of the operation and
identify everyone suspected of belonging to the seed-smuggling network.[1]The
crossing, known in Arabic as Bab Sebta and on the Spanish side as El Tarajal,
carries constant traffic both ways, and officers have repeatedly found hashish,
people, phones and hookah tobacco in vehicles there.[1]
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The exact time of the search is given only as during the day on Monday 11 May 2026; Assabah says morning, while another local Arabic site described the operation as in the evening.
Neither account states whether the driver was formally arrested or charged, or whether the car was confiscated; the reports say only that he was placed under investigation under the prosecutor's supervision.
The driver's name was not published in either account.
No street value for the seeds was published.
The two pictures are credited only to Assabah and their content is not described in the text; they are linked, not treated as a cover.
The article also reports a separate non-cannabis find of 3 kg of gold in a car leaving Ceuta, left out of this report.
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