Officers of the Maghama commissariat, the local police station serving the town of Maghama in Gorgol Region, arrested five Mauritanian nationals linked to the hashish case.[1] The five suspects remained under investigation while police prepared to transfer them to the public prosecutor in Kaédi for the next stage of the case.[2] Police said the market garden where the concealed drug was found was the property of one of the alleged traffickers behind the seized consignment.[1]

In the same enforcement action, the Maghama commissariat in Gorgol Region seized a total of 22 kilograms of hashish.[2] The seized hashish was explicitly identified as cannabis resin, clarifying that the local term haschich refers to resin in this case.[1] Officers found the full consignment hidden inside a market garden, described in French as a jardin maraicher, situated on the bank of the river.[2]

Maghama is the town where the seizing police station is based, located within Gorgol Region where the enforcement action took place.[1] Kaédi is the town whose prosecutor’s office, called the parquet in French, was designated to receive the suspects once the police investigation allowed referral.[2]