Sousse Sud police seize 30 slabs of cannabis resin and detain a suspect
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.
🇹🇳 Sousse Sud, Sousse · Tunisia
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Tuniscope reported that security units in Sousse Sud seized 30 slabs of cannabis
on the evening of 31 October 2026.[1][2][3][4] The substance was cannabis resin, known
in Tunisia as zatla, and the slabs were prepared for sale, Radio Marina said.[5] A suspect was arrested, Radio Marina reported.[5][3][4] The public prosecutor
authorised his detention and legal measures against him.[5][4] The operation
began after information that a man was moving suspiciously between Msaken and
Hay Riad.[5][4] The Sousse Sud judicial police brigade, working with the head of
the judicial duty centre and the emergency squad, identified and stopped him.[5]
Officers also seized several mobile phones and a luxury car that Radio Marina
said he used to move the drugs.[5][4] Jawhara FM described the car as prepared
for rental.[6][3]
The Sousse Sud judicial police brigade was still trying to identify and bring in
the other suspected members of the network, Jawhara FM reported.[6][7] Radio
Marina said the investigation was continuing to uncover other possible parties,
with judicial authorisation.[5][4]
Police described the network as suspected of supplying, smuggling and promoting drugs inside the country.[7]
Photos and video
Police photo of the 30 slabs of cannabis resin seized in Sousse Sud, laid out in rows beside a placard naming the National Security District of Sousse Sud and its judicial police brigade. Credit: National Security District of Sousse Sud, via Hakaekonline Source: Hakaekonline
No weight was given for the 30 slabs, so the seizure is recorded by slab count only.
The suspect is not named, and no charge or court outcome has been reported.
Jawhara FM and Tuniscope reported the seizure and a car prepared for rental without mentioning an arrest, while Radio Marina, published the next morning, reported one arrest, several phones and a luxury car; the report treats them as one operation because the place, quantity, car and investigating brigade match.
Tuniscope cites Jawhara FM and repeats its account, so the two are not independent.
The only image on the submitted page is a stock arrest graphic, and no captioned photograph of the seizure was found.
Hakaekonline gives no separate date for the operation; 1 November 2026 is the publication date of its account.
The police photograph carries no credit line beyond the Sousse Sud placard visible in it.
No weight was given for the 30 slabs, so the seizure remains recorded by slab count only.
The submitted page gives only its publication date of 1 November 2026; the evening of 31 October 2026 comes from the existing report.
The submitted page says Cité Erriadh while the existing report says Hay Riad for the same Msaken movement corridor.
The submitted page says Sousse generally while the existing report places the operation in Sousse Sud.
The page's lead image file Sans-titre-1.jpg has only the generic alt Sans titre-1 and no caption establishing that it shows this seizure, so no media entry is added.
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.
The interior ministry reported on 7 March 2026 that 2025 brought 181,998 judicial cases in total, 14,300 of them drug-trafficking cases, and 69,164 arrests, 20,289 for drug trafficking. It also reported seizures of cannabis, 479,830 tablets, 146.77 kg of cocaine and 751.25 g of heroin. The figures cover police and national guard, not customs.
Colonel Sami Saoudi of the National Road Safety Observatory announced on 27 July 2025 that police would get rapid saliva tests for drugs, to be used at road checks and after traffic offences. No start date was given. The device would sit alongside alcohol tests; no THC threshold or separate penalty for cannabis was published.
On 6 November 2023 President Kais Saied met the interior minister, the national guard commander and the director general of national security and called for more patrols and a tougher fight against drugs. The meeting followed similar remarks on 26 October. Lawyers later linked the instructions to the arrest wave of 2024.