71 kg of cannabis seized at Moroni's Magoudjou quay; two held
Comoros' National Gendarmerie seized 71 kg of cannabis at the fishermen's quay in Magoudjou, Moroni, on 27 July 2021 and detained two people described as members of the network. The gendarmerie said the investigation was continuing and the drug would go to the prosecutor for incineration.
🇰🇲 Quai des pêcheurs, Magoudjou, Moroni, Grande Comore · Comoros
Comoros’ National Gendarmerieseized71 kg of cannabis at the fishermen’s quay
in Magoudjou, in Moroni on Grande Comore, on Tuesday 27 July 2021.[1]Officers
detained two people described as belonging to the network behind the shipment.[1]HabarizaComores reported the same 71 kg seizure at the Magoudjou quay on
the same day, with two people arrested.[2]
The gendarmerie’s statement said the investigation was continuing and that the
cannabis would be handed to the prosecutor’s office for incineration.[1]
La Gazette des Comores later counted the 71 kg intercepted at Magoudjou among
992 kg of drugs seized off the archipelago’s coasts in one week, alongside 846
kg taken at sea off Anjouan and 75 kg burned on Mohéli.[3]
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Gendarmerie Nationale photo of the 71 kg cannabis seizure at the Magoudjou fishermen's quay, accompanying the agency's statement; the credit line on the page reads Gendarmerie nationale.Photo details
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Source: Comores InfosSecond photo in the body of the article, published between the seizure statement and the note that the drug would go to the prosecutor for incineration; captioned only with the agency name Gendarmerie nationale.Photo details
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Source: Comores InfosPhoto shown with HabarizaComores' report on the 71 kg seizure at Magoudjou, credited to the Gendarmerie Nationale.Photo details
The two people detained were not named, and neither their ages nor their roles in the shipment were published.
No charge, trial date or court outcome has been published; the gendarmerie said only that the investigation was under way.
No street value for the 71 kg was published.
Neither report establishes where the cannabis was loaded or where it was meant to go, beyond describing the two detainees as part of the network.
The gendarmerie's statement gives no separate date for the seizure beyond 'ce mardi'; 27 July 2021, the Tuesday on which both reports were published, is used.
Whether the images on the two articles are agency handouts of this seizure or near-identical republished photos was judged from captions and credits only, since the pictures themselves could not be examined.
Customs and border police at Moroni's Hahaya airport seized 150 slabs of cannabis resin weighing 14 kg from a young Comorian woman arriving from France on 14 February 2026. She was arrested for importation; no charge or court outcome has been published.
The Comorian coast guard intercepted a fishing boat in Comorian waters on the night of 17 January 2026 and seized 149 kg of cannabis. Several people were detained, including a repeat facilitator known to the security services, and the drugs were later burned at the Anjouan court.
Customs officers seized 2.6 kg of cannabis from a crew member aboard the Sima B at the Port of Moroni and arrested him after the vessel arrived from Majunga. The man, known as Bosco, was held in pre-trial detention while prosecutors opened a case and sought alleged accomplices.
Police in Moroni seized 119 kg of cannabis and detained the parcel's owner, described as a notable, about two days before 8 November 2012. Officers said the arrest followed a denunciation by a woman who had trusted him to sell goats on her behalf.
