Moroccan customs services used a mobile scanner to seize a record quantity of 11 tons of hashish aboard two TIR trucks in December 2006.[1] A US diplomatic cable describing the same record seizure says officials seized a record 11 metric tons of cannabis resin in Tangier that month, crediting the mobile x-ray scanner.[2] The national wire’s account places the seizure at Nador.[1]
Record 11-tonne hashish seizure at northern port in December 2006
Moroccan customs used a mobile scanner to seize a record 11 tonnes of cannabis resin aboard two TIR trucks in December 2006. The national wire places the seizure at Nador while a US cable describing the same record seizure places it at Tangier.
🇲🇦 Nador (Maghreb Arabe Presse) / Tangier (US diplomatic cable) · Morocco
- Cannabis
- 11 t
- Cannabis
- Hashish
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Cannabis
- 11 t
- Agency type
- Customs
- Cannabis
- Hashish (11 t)
- Setting
- Vehicle
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Sources
- Maghreb Arabe Press (via 420 Magazine)420magazine.comOver 300 kg of Cannabis Resin Seized
- US Embassy Rabat (via Wikileaks cable mirror)wikileaks.jcvignoli.comMorocco: 2008-2009 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report
Open questions the AI reported
- The two opened sources contradict each other on the port: Maghreb Arabe Presse reports Nador, while the US diplomatic cable reports Tangier; the report uses Nador with the coordinates above.
- Neither opened source gives the exact day in December 2006, so the report is dated to the first of the month.
- The same MAP dispatch mentions a three-tonne Moroccan navy seizure north of Nador in April and a seizure of more than a tonne in two TIR trucks and a car in mid-June, both separate events left out here.
