Four arrested as gendarmerie seize 12 tonnes of cannabis at Ljmiane
Moroccan gendarmerie searched a house in Ljmiane, Tétouan province, on 25 January 2008, arresting four suspected traffickers and seizing about 12 tonnes of cannabis including eight tonnes of kif in stalks, four tonnes of ground cannabis and 2.3 kilograms of powdered resin.
Moroccan authorities arrested four suspected drug traffickers and seized about 12 tonnes of cannabis
during a house search in Ljmiane, in Tétouan province.[1]The gendarmerie reported eight tonnes of
kif in stalks, four tonnes of ground cannabis and 2.3 kilograms of powdered cannabis resin.[1]
Presentation to prosecutors
The four suspects were handed to the prosecutor, Bladi.net reported.[1]One of them allegedly tried
to bribe gendarmes with 9,800 dirhams.[1]The article gives no names, travel routes or export
destinations.[1]It notes official figures that cannabis was planted on about 72,500 hectares in
2005, down from 134,000 hectares in 2003, but those national cultivation statistics are background
rather than part of this seizure.[1]
Case data
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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.
