10 tonnes of hashish found in tomato truck at Tanger-Med port
Moroccan police seized 10 tonnes of hashish hidden in a tomato truck at Tanger-Med port on 13 December 2013, bound for France. The cannabis had been balled to look like tomatoes, and the driver was arrested.
Moroccan police found 10 tonnes of hashish hidden in a truckload of tomatoes at the Tanger-Med port during a search on Friday 13 December 2013.[1][2]The truck was bound for France, and the cannabis had been balled up “to look like tomatoes” under a thin veneer of real ones.[1][2]Regional police colonel Abdellah Dachri said the driver was arrested and an investigation was under way to find accomplices.[1][2]
Morocco remains one of the world’s main sources of cannabis even after a decade-long decline in farming, with the interior minister estimating 700,000 Moroccans make a living from its production.[1][2]Police seized about 250 tonnes of the drug the previous year, most of it in hashish form.[1][2]
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Royal Gendarmerie officers in Kalaat Sraghna raided an olive grove bordering Marchouh commune, seizing hashish, cannabis ears and traditional spirit, and arrested one suspect. The gendarmes said investigations were continuing to identify and arrest the others involved.
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.
Police in Tinghir province stopped a car on the outskirts of Boumalne Dadès on 29 October 2026 and found 28 kilograms of chira, the cannabis resin known as hashish, hidden in its bodywork. Four people, two of them women, were arrested and remanded to Ouarzazate prison, and investigators suspect one woman's husband directed the network from his cell.
