Morocco seizes nearly 24 tonnes of hashish from boats off the north coast
Moroccan security forces seized nearly 24 tonnes of hashish from boats and arrested 11 people after an overnight chase off the northern coast, hours after Spain announced raids on a connected trafficking ring.
Moroccan security forces seized nearly 24 tonnes of hashish from a number of boats and arrested 11 people after an overnight chase off the northern coast.[1]The MAP news agency reported the operation on Saturday 24 January 2015.[1]
A cross-strait wave of raids
The Moroccan operation came hours after Spanish police said they had seized 11 tonnes of hashish and detained 55 people across Spain in raids on a Moroccan trafficking ring.[1]The Moroccan agency gave no further detail on how far the two operations were linked.[1]A Spanish police source said the gang moved the drug into Spain on speedboats or hidden inside the fuel tanks of trucks.[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.
