5,070 kg of hashish seized after a Nador ring-road pursuit
Judicial police in Nador seized 5 tonnes and 70 kilograms of chira, cannabis resin, from a Moroccan-registered utility vehicle on 5 December 2019 after a pursuit on the city's ring road. The driver fled, and the DGSN said a prosecutor-supervised investigation was opened to find him and any accomplices.
Judicial police in Nador seized five tonnes and 70 kilograms of chira early on
Thursday morning.[1]The resin was wrapped in 169 packages.[1]The police
said they had aborted a large drug-trafficking attempt that Thursday.[2]The
driver fled, and searches were under way to identify and arrest him.[3]
The DGSN said the chira was concealed in a vehicle.[2]Officers took the load
from a Moroccan-registered utility vehicle on the Rocade de Nador, the city’s
ring road, after a pursuit by the judicial police.[3]A communiqué account
described the drug as cannabis resin and placed the city in north-eastern
Morocco, dating the seizure Thursday 5 December.[3]
A judicial investigation was opened under the competent prosecutor to identify
accomplices and any national or international ramifications.[1]The DGSN
presented the operation as part of its efforts against criminal networks
involved in international drug trafficking.[3]The DGSN said its services were
continuing their fight against drug traffickers in the north.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
H24info described the place as the national road near Nador, while the DGSN communiqué quoted by Maroc Hebdo and Le Courrier du Vietnam placed the seizure on the Rocade de Nador. The report uses the communiqué location.
Le Courrier du Vietnam reported 5.7 tonnes, while H24info and Maroc Hebdo reported 5 tonnes and 70 kilograms. The report uses 5,070 kilograms.
The driver had not been arrested when the statements were published, and no later arrest or court outcome is known.
All three accounts reproduce the same DGSN communiqué.
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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.
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