Royal Gendarmerie arrests 1 in Sidi Bibi over chira and cannabis, seizing 2 motorcycles
Royal Gendarmerie officers at the Sidi Bibi territorial centre in Chtouka Ait Baha province arrested one person suspected of drug trafficking and seized quantities of chira and cannabis herb, a large sword and two motorcycles. The suspect was held in police custody for a judicial investigation supervised by the public prosecutor.
Royal Gendarmerie officers at the Sidi Bibi territorial centre in Chtouka Ait
Baha province stopped the activity of a person suspected of links to the
trafficking of drugs and psychotropic substances.[1]The search the officers
carried out found quantities of chira, cannabis resin, and of cannabis herb,
known locally as kif.[1]
Officers also seized a large sword and two motorcycles, which they suspect were
used to move around and to facilitate drug-trafficking activity.[1]The
suspect was placed in garde à vue, Morocco’s police-custody measure, while a
judicial investigation continues under the supervision of the competent public
prosecutor.[1]The gendarmerie said the investigation was meant to uncover all
the circumstances of the case and to establish whether other parties were
connected to the activity.[1]
The gendarmerie presented the arrest as part of its operations against
drug-related crime across the province and its pursuit of suspects in drug
trafficking.[1]
Case data
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The article gives no separate date for the arrest; 9 November 2026, its publication date and the day the page appears to have been posted, stands in for the incident date.
No weight was published for the quantities of chira and cannabis, and no estimated value was given.
No name, age, charge, court date or outcome for the suspect was published.
Only one account of this arrest could be found, and it cites unnamed 'available data' rather than a gendarmerie statement by name.
The page's lead image shows a Royal Gendarmerie vehicle on a road with no caption or credit tying it to this arrest, so no photo of the event could be linked.
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