692 kg of cannabis resin seized in Maghnia and Remchi, three arrested
Algeria's National Gendarmerie arrested three alleged drug traffickers and seized 692.7 kilograms of cannabis resin and a car in the communes of Maghnia and Remchi, in Tlemcen province near the Moroccan border, on 7 August 2016. The Defence Ministry announced the seizure in a statement carried by the state news agency.
🇩🇿 Maghnia and Remchi communes, Tlemcen province · Algeria
Algeria’s National Gendarmeriearrested three alleged drug traffickers and seized692.7 kilograms of cannabis resin and a car in the communes of Maghnia and Remchi, in Tlemcen province about 540 kilometres west of Algiers, on 7 August 2016.[1]The Defence Ministry announced the operation in a statement carried by the state news agency APS as part of what it called the fight against organised crime.[1]
Maghnia and Remchi sit in the 2nd Military Region near the Moroccan border, on the corridor traffickers use to move Moroccan hashish east into Algeria.[1]The statement gave no names, no charges and no account of what happened to the three men after their arrest.[1]
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The whole account rests on one Defence Ministry statement; no second independent account of the seizure was found.
No charges, trial or other outcome for the three arrested traffickers was reported.
The same ministry statement reports a separate interception of 150 kg of cannabis resin on the East-West Motorway in Setif province, a different event left out here.
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