The New Gendarmerie dismantles an international drug trafficking network, including a consultant of the group
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Ahmed Mesbah – New
In a qualitative intervention, the gendarmerie services, affiliated with the regional command of the Royal Gendarmerie of El Jadida, aborted, early this morning, Friday December 27, 2024, a massive drug trafficking operation, from the coasts of the province of El Jadida, towards the Old Continent; Police responders, who used a drone and trained dogs, arrested 18 people, including a group leader, suspected of being involved in an international drug trafficking network.
In detail of the intervention of the gendarmerie, a mobile patrol from the Territory of the Royal Gendarmerie in the center of Azemmour was able, with the help of daily patrols from the region of El Jadida, responsible for monitoring the coasts, Friday at 1 p.m. morning, to thwart a vast drug trafficking operation that was coming to an end. It was launched from the territory of the community of Hawziyah, in the New Province, more precisely from the beach in front of the “Al-Zahahif” roundabout, in the center and management department of Hawziyah. This resulted in the arrest of 9 suspects, from the Northern region. A pressurized inflatable boat ready to sail, an empty inflatable boat, 3 marine engines, various horses and 9 manual inflatable pumps were also seized.
Following a search operation in the area, around three o’clock in the morning of the same day (Friday), following the intervention of the police, the police intercepted two light cars of the type “Dacia” and “Renault” , with two other suspects from the city of Tangier on board.
The investigations carried out by the gendarmes, under the direction of the commander of the new company, resulted in the arrest of the named (L.) and the named (A.), who were the subject of an investigation and who used a Dacia car, which was seized, not far from a farm belonging to a collective advisor, without forgetting an engine inside a shelter adjoining the site of the security operation.
The police intervention, following this specific operation, during which a drone and a team of trained dogs were used, led to the arrest of 7 other suspects, bringing the number of people arrested so far to 18 suspects, including a group advisor, designated by the judicial police. By parliamentary instructions, under the control of theoretical police custody, to subject them to an investigation, and to refer them, as part of a flagrante delicto procedure, to the competent public prosecutor.
It should be noted that the “mafia” networks, active in international drug trafficking, began to establish themselves, following the strengthening of restrictions imposed on their criminal activities in the Northern region, from the coasts of the regions of the News and Sidi Bennour. , maritime corridors for drug trafficking, towards the northern shore of the Mediterranean. But the projects of these networks come up against the interventions of the Royal Gendarmerie, affiliated with the New Region, which has demonstrated its vigilance and preparation. He declared a relentless war against international drug trafficking, against human trafficking and against the organizers of illegal immigration on “death boats”.
