4.2 tonnes of hashish seized at Guerguerat crossing
Moroccan customs seized 4,198 kg of hashish in tablet form hidden in a truck's custom-built compartments at the El Guerguerat crossing on 19 August 2024. A second truck inspected the next day held 46 kg of cocaine, a separate non-cannabis seizure left out of the figures.
🇲🇦 El Guerguerat border crossing, south of Dakhla · Morocco
Customs officers of the Dakhla-Oued Eddahab regional authority seized4,198
kg of hashish, locally known as chira, at the El Guerguerat border post with
Mauritania on Monday, 19 August 2024.[1][2]
The drug was pressed into tablets and hidden in custom-built compartments in
a truck’s secure storage areas, found during a meticulous search carried out
with the national security services.[2]The crossing sits about 380 km
south of Dakhla on the road route between Morocco and Mauritania.[1]
The next day officers using scanners found 46 kg of cocaine hidden in the
refrigeration system of a second transport truck, a separate seizure
recorded here only for context and left out of the cannabis figures.[1][2]
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.
