Three arrested with half-kilo cannabis in Sousse raid
Sousse's regional anti-drug brigade raided a house in El Aouina and detained three suspects, including a foreign national. Officers seized about half a kilogram of cannabis alongside pills, a scale and suspected cash, and prosecutors ordered the three held for investigation.
🇹🇳 El Aouina neighbourhood, Sousse · Tunisia
Arrested
3
Cannabis
500 g
Sousse’s regional anti-drug brigade detained three people, including a foreign
national, in a security operation.[1] The operation consisted of a raid on a
house located in the El Aouina neighbourhood.[1] After consulting the Public
Prosecution, the prosecution ordered the three suspects to be held pending
investigation to continue inquiries and complete the necessary legal procedures.[1]
The search seized about half a kilogram of cannabis, described as cannabis herb.[1] Officers also seized a quantity of narcotic pills alongside the cannabis.[1] They also seized a weighing scale suspected of being used in dealing
activity and a sum of money suspected of being linked to that activity.[1]
The report presents the operation as part of continuing security efforts against
drug dealing and trafficking in narcotic substances.[1]
The article gives no separate date for the raid; 3 November 2026 is the publication date and is used as the incident date.
The cannabis weight is reported as approximate, about half a kilogram, not an exact laboratory weight.
The quantity of narcotic pills, the cash amount and details of the scale were not quantified, so no additional cannabis quantity or value can be recorded; only the separately stated cannabis weight is used.
The names, ages, genders and nationality of the three suspects were not published beyond one being described as a foreigner.
No court outcome beyond detention pending investigation was reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Arabic and French.
The page carries a photo captioned only IMG_6193, which cannot be established to show this seizure, so no media entry is included.
Security units in Sousse Sud, Tunisia, seized 30 slabs of cannabis resin, known as zatla, on the evening of 31 October 2026 and seized a car. Radio Marina reported that a suspect was arrested and detained on the public prosecutor's authorisation, while the search for other members of the network continued.
Security units in Carthage arrested eight people, including a foreign woman from a Maghreb country, after breaking up two drug-dealing networks. They seized one and a half plates of cannabis, called zatla, 25 pieces of the same drug, 5 grams of cocaine and cash they suspected was proceeds.
On Sunday 18 October 2026 national security units in Sousse city arrested a man after an ambush and seized 29 slabs of cannabis resin, called zatla. They also took the private car he used, and said the search for other suspects was continuing.
An investigation published on 18 March 2024 found cannabis users facing random street stops, house raids, phone searches and pre-trial detention, with lawyers saying the repression was the worst since Ben Ali. People were held for carrying rolling papers or filters, and activists said prosecutors treated small users as dealers.
