Six arrested with 497 g of kif in Naciria, Boumerdes
Gendarmerie officers in Naciria, Boumerdès arrested six suspected traffickers and seized 497 grams of treated kif, plus cash, phones and bladed weapons. The suspects were referred to the competent courts, with no names or outcomes reported.
The brigade acted after receiving information about a criminal drug-trafficking
network active in Naciria commune.[1]Investigations identified, located and
arrested the suspects.[1]A later overview confirms that six traffickers were
arrested by the National Gendarmerie at Naciria in Boumerdes.[2]
The later overview describes the haul as nearly 500 grams of kif traité plus
bladed weapons, mobile phones and cash.[2]
The suspects were referred to the competent courts.[1]The Gendarmerie
presented the operation as part of its fight against organised crime in its
Boumerdes area.[1]The overview presents the dismantling as evidence that
interior networks are often fed by cross-border trafficking channels.[2]
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No separate raid date was published; 26 March 2024 is the publication date of both detailed accounts and is used as the incident date.
The overview rounds the haul to nearly 500 grams while the Gendarmerie communiqué gives 497 grams; the report uses 497 grams.
The suspects’ names, ages and formal charges were not published, only referral to the competent jurisdictions.
No court outcome after that referral was reported.
The 124,000 dinars, seven phones and bladed weapons are described in the text; the cash is suspected proceeds and is not recorded as a drug value.
The Laghouat cocaine seizure and the October-November 2024 border seizures mentioned in the same overview are separate events left out of this report.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Le Matin d’Algérie: The National Gendarmerie's Naciria territorial brigade dismantled a six-person drug-trafficking gang in Naciria commune in Boumerdes wilaya.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Le Matin d’Algérie: Officers seized 497 grams of kif traité, the processed cannabis product recorded here as 0.497 kg.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Le Matin d’Algérie: The same search also took 124,000 Algerian dinars in suspected proceeds, seven mobile phones and bladed weapons.
Algiers police arrested six people suspected of running a neighbourhood gang that intimidated residents of Draria, seizing 19.6 grams of processed cannabis alongside cocaine, psychotropic tablets, bladed weapons and suspected drug proceeds. The six were presented before the public prosecutor at the Chéraga court.
Béjaïa police arrested nine people in a drug-trafficking investigation that began in Oued Ghir and continued with searches in Barbacha and Saket. Officers seized a piece of Indian hemp alongside pregabalin and ecstasy tablets; seven were remanded and two placed under judicial supervision.
Algiers judicial police arrested four people, including a woman, in Chéraga over an alleged organised drug-trafficking network. Officers seized just over 7 kg of treated kif alongside cocaine, cash, vehicles and paraphernalia before referring the suspects to the Bir Mourad Raïs prosecutor.
Algeria's National Gendarmerie arrested 33 people, including a minor, and seized 176 kg of processed cannabis in Algiers on 4 November 2026. The defence ministry said the operation dismantled two cross-border criminal networks and also involved cocaine and psychotropic tablets.
