Eight arrested as Carthage police break two drug networks
Security units in Carthage arrested eight people, including a foreign woman from a Maghreb country, after breaking up two drug-dealing networks. They seized one and a half plates of cannabis, called zatla, 25 pieces of the same drug, 5 grams of cocaine and cash they suspected was proceeds.
🇹🇳 Carthage, Tunis · Tunisia
- Arrested
- 8
Security units of the National Security District of Carthage broke up two
networks dealing drugs and arrested eight people.[1] Réalités, citing the
Tunis Afrique Presse agency, reported the same dismantling of two dealing
networks and the same eight arrests.[2] Among those held was a foreign woman
from a Maghreb country, and four people wanted in connection with theft and
robbery cases.[1] Réalités said arrest warrants had been issued for those four
over theft and robbery cases.[2]
The operation seized one and a half plates of Indian cannabis, called zatla, and
25 pieces of the same substance.[1] Officers also took 5 grams of cocaine and
sums of money they suspected were proceeds of dealing.[2]
Sources
- تفكيك شبكتين لترويج المخدرات وإيقاف 8 أشخاص من بينهم فتاة اجنبية. موقع الحصري, 30 October 2026. In Arabic.
- قرطاج: تفكيك شبكتين لترويج المخدرات وإيقاف 8 أشخاص. رياليتي, 30 October 2026. In Arabic.
Open questions the AI reported
- No separate date for the operation is stated; 30 October 2026 is the publication date of both accounts.
- Neither account gives a weight for the one and a half plates and 25 pieces of zatla, or an amount for the cash.
- No one is named, and no charge or court outcome is stated.
- The pictures on the cited pages are older stock images, not photographs of this seizure, so none is listed.