The investigating judge at the Tunis Court of First Instance issued committal orders jailing ten people for forming an international network to promote drugs.[1] Those jailed include public employees, cattle traders and the owner of a car-rental agency.[1] The judge released four others while barring them from travelling.[1]

The National Guard’s central anti-drug brigade in Ben Arous carried out the arrests that broke the network, which smuggled drugs in from a foreign country for sale in Tunisia.[1] The investigation began from information that a restaurant worker and a café waitress were dealing drugs to the café’s and restaurant’s customers.[1]

Further inquiries identified the rest of the network and brought the number of people detained to 14, among them a cattle-breeding agency employee, cattle traders, a car broker and the car-rental agency owner.[1]

Officers seized significant quantities of cocaine, cannabis and narcotic tablets, along with substantial sums of money and luxury cars.[1] Investigators found that the drugs were smuggled from a foreign country into Tunisia to be sold there.[1]