Sidi Rahal: Failure of a trafficking operation of more than 18 tons of chira.

The Casablanca judicial police services, in close coordination with the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance, managed to foil early this Monday morning a major international drug trafficking operation from the coastal area of ​​Sidi Rahal, seizing a total of 18 tons and 243 kilograms of chira.

A press release from the General Directorate of National Security specified that this joint security operation led to the arrest of five people in flagrante delicto of transporting drugs in an international goods transport truck, attempting to load the drugs onto three boats fast pneumatic tires to pass it by sea from the beach of Sidi Rahal, on the outskirts of Casablanca.

Search and sweep operations resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of fuel containers, powerful marine engines, three fast inflatable boats, air pumps, a satellite telephone, as well as a large truck used to transport the drugs by ground route.

The press release indicates that the five people arrested in this case were placed in police custody as part of the judicial investigation ordered by the competent public prosecutor’s office, in order to unveil all the ramifications and potential connections of this criminal network at the national and national levels. international, and to arrest all those involved in this criminal activity.

This large-scale operation is part of the joint efforts of national security services and territorial surveillance to dismantle cross-border crime networks, particularly those involved in international drug trafficking.