Police find 15 tonnes of cannabis resin in Tangier truck, total 28.9 tonnes
Morocco's national police said the Tangier judicial police found 15 tonnes and 244 kilograms of cannabis resin in a hidden compartment of a truck in the Boukhalef district on 9 January 2019. The DGSN linked the load to a 13.75-tonne find at Tanger Med four days earlier, putting the two seizures at 28 tonnes 994 kilograms.
🇲🇦 Boukhalef-Al Irfane, Tangier · Morocco
Cannabis
28.994 t
The resin lay in a specially built hollow compartment aboard a
Morocco-registered international haulage truck found in the Boukhalef district
of Tangier.[1]Le360 reported that judicial police officers found the drugs
aboard two goods trucks on Wednesday 9 January in the Boukhalef-Al Irfane
district, in an operation by the Tangier judicial police anti-drug squad, known
in Morocco as the brigade anti-drogue.[2]The DGSN, the Direction générale de
la sûreté nationale, announced the seizure on Thursday in a statement.[1]
The haul followed the discovery on Saturday 5 January of a first cargo of 13
tonnes and 750 kilograms of cannabis resin at the Tanger Med port.[1]The DGSN
put the two seizures together at 28 tonnes994 kilograms of drug.[1]TelQuel,
publishing the Agence France-Presse report, said the drug had been hidden in a
truck in a district of the port of Tangier, while other accounts place the truck
in the Boukhalef neighbourhood.[3]
Preliminary findings pointed to a cross-border criminal network, suspected of
setting up shell companies to cover its activities and of keeping links with
criminal networks in Morocco or Europe.[1]The Tangier judicial police said
they would keep working with the DGST, the kingdom’s domestic intelligence
service, under the public prosecutor’s supervision to arrest everyone involved
and uncover the network’s trafficking and money-laundering activities.[1]None
of the reports named anyone arrested or charged over either seizure.[4]
Sources
Atlasinfoatlasinfo.frFRLa quantité de drogue saisie à Tanger s’élève à plus de 15 tonnes de résine de cannabis
Le360fr.le360.maFRTanger: saisie d’une quantité impressionnante de drogues à bord de deux camions
The reports give no figure for the load found at Tanger Med on 5 January 2019 beyond the 13 tonnes 750 kilograms cited in the DGSN statement, and that separate find is counted here only as part of the reported total.
No arrests, charges, named suspects or court outcome were published in the accounts opened, and the DGSN only said it was seeking those involved.
The DGSN total of 28 tonnes 994 kilograms is described as an amount of 'drug'; all the identified content of the two loads is cannabis resin.
Le360 reports the drugs aboard two goods trucks, while the DGSN statement and Atlasinfo describe one Morocco-registered international haulage truck.
TelQuel, publishing the AFP copy, places the truck in a district of the port of Tangier, while the DGSN statement and Le360 place it in the Boukhalef area; this report follows the DGSN location.
The DGST is described in the statement only as the Direction générale de la surveillance du territoire national, which corresponds to Morocco's domestic intelligence service.
Le360's page was published on 9 January before the police statement and gives no weight of its own for the load.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in L'Observateur du Maroc et d'Afrique: Police of the Tangier prefectural judicial police service seized 15 tonnes and 244 kilograms of cannabis resin on Wednesday 9 January 2019.
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