Cannabis dealer arrested in Tunis's El Omrane with rolls and a scale
Judicial police in El Omrane, Tunis, arrested a suspected cannabis dealer after a buyer named him and raided his home with the public prosecutor, seizing rolls of zatla prepared for sale, an electronic scale and a gas canister. The prosecutor authorised holding those involved while police trace the rest of the network.
Judicial police in El Omrane, a district of Tunis, arrested a suspected cannabis
dealer and seized significant quantities of the drug, known locally as zatla.[1]Police said the cannabis was prepared for sale, particularly to young
people and in schools.[1]
Investigators started from a man found carrying a piece of cannabis, who told
them he had bought it from a dealer operating in the same area.[1]Babnet’s
account, carried by Daily8, describes the same operation by the El Omrane
brigade against a dealer selling to young people and in schools, and places the
activity in El Jbal al-Ahmar, a neighbouring district of Tunis.[2]
With the public prosecutor at the Tunis Court of First Instance, investigators
raided the suspect’s home.[1]The raid found a large quantity of cannabis
rolls prepared for sale, an electronic scale and a canister of incapacitating
gas.[1]Babnet identifies the rolls explicitly as cannabis and says the scale
was used to weigh the forbidden goods.[2]
After consulting the prosecutor, police were authorised to hold all those
involved while the investigation continued into the rest of the network.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Agency
National Police (judicial police brigade, El Omrane)
No weight or package count for the cannabis was published, so no cannabis quantity or value is recorded.
Hakaekonline says only that the operation took place "yesterday" without a date; the Babnet account, carried by Daily8, is dated 4 November 2026 and describes the arrest as the previous day, so 4 November is used here.
Hakaekonline places the case in El Omrane; the Babnet and Daily8 account places the dealer's activity in El Jbal al-Ahmar, a different district of Tunis.
Hakaekonline says all those involved were held after the raid, while the Babnet account refers only to the suspect, and neither says how many people were arrested; only the single dealer is recorded.
The dealer is not named and no age, charge sheet or court outcome was published; the investigation was continuing into the rest of the network.
The original Babnet page served corrupted Arabic text and could not be quoted, so Daily8's copy of the Babnet report is used instead.
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