3.7 tonnes of hashish seized at Gueltat Zemmour near Mauritania
Morocco's Royal Armed Forces seized 3.7 tonnes of cannabis resin in 148 packages at Gueltat Zemmour after firing warning shots at two vehicles. The Tuesday-evening interception took place at the defence line near the Mauritanian border in Western Sahara.
🇲🇦 Gueltat Zemmour, near the Mauritanian border (Western Sahara) · Morocco
Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces seized3.7 tonnes of Moroccan hashish in an
operation on Tuesday evening near the border with Mauritania, as reported
Wednesday by the Moroccan press agency MAP.[1]The army said it foiled a
drug-trafficking operation at the defence line at Gueltat Zemmour after firing
warning shots at two vehicles.[1]The seized load consisted of 148 packages of
cannabis resin, totalling 3.7 tonnes.[1]
A second French-language account likewise places the Tuesday-evening operation
at Gueltat Zemmour near the Mauritanian border.[2]That account says the drugs
were in the two vehicles stopped by the army’s warning shots.[2]English-language coverage likewise reports 3,700 kilograms of cannabis resin
seized at Guelta Zemmour west of Morocco’s defence wall.[3]
Gueltat Zemmour lies near the Mauritanian border in Western Sahara, a former
Spanish colony mostly controlled by Morocco but claimed by the Polisario
movement.[1]Morocco is the world’s leading producer and a major exporter of
cannabis resin, most of it sold in Europe, according to the UN Office on Drugs
and Crime.[1]
Case data
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Royal Gendarmerie officers in Kalaat Sraghna raided an olive grove bordering Marchouh commune, seizing hashish, cannabis ears and traditional spirit, and arrested one suspect. The gendarmes said investigations were continuing to identify and arrest the others involved.
Royal Gendarmerie officers in Larache province arrested two men caught crushing cannabis at Douar Mahir, in Bni Garfat commune, and seized 2.26 tonnes of kif, of which 1,360 kilograms were stems and 900 kilograms already crushed material. The two were held in police custody under a prosecutor's inquiry, and the seized cannabis was destroyed under a mixed commission.
Royal Gendarmerie officers arrested four men and seized more than two tonnes of kif and smuggled tobacco from three vehicles in the Aoulouz area of Taroudant province, Morocco. The four were held on the public prosecutor's orders for an inquiry into where the shipment came from and where it was going.
Police in Tinghir province stopped a car on the outskirts of Boumalne Dadès on 29 October 2026 and found 28 kilograms of chira, the cannabis resin known as hashish, hidden in its bodywork. Four people, two of them women, were arrested and remanded to Ouarzazate prison, and investigators suspect one woman's husband directed the network from his cell.
