Police arrested two suspects for their alleged links to a criminal network suspected of international drug trafficking.
Rabat – Police in Fez seized 3.2 tons of cannabis resin on Tuesday, November 5.
Security services carried out the operation on the basis of information provided by the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGSN).
Morocco’s General Directorate of National Security released a video, showing the drugs carefully concealed in a large piece of marble.
Police used sharp electric tools to uncover the cannabis resin.
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شريط فيديو يوثق لعمليات الحجز المنجزة بضواحي مدينة فاس، والتي أسفرت عن ضبط 13 طن و200 كيلوغرام من مخدر الشيرا ضمن الأحجار الرخامية من الحجم الكبير. pic.twitter.com/lxVRGUzUn6— DGSN MAROC (@DGSN_MAROC) 6 novembre 2019
Police arrested two suspects for their alleged links to a criminal network suspected of international drug trafficking.
Police arrested the suspects at a farm in the region of Ras El Ma, ten kilometers away from Fez.
Security services put the suspects in custody for further investigation to determine the circumstances of the case and to arrest other accomplices involved in the drug trafficking network.
The DGSN announced in September that its security services arrested 420,348 people on charges of drug trafficking from January 1 to September 15.
Out of the total number of suspects arrested, 331,252 have been arrested when found in possession of drugs, while 89,096 were arrested after public prosecutors put out arrest warrants.
During the same period, police seized 112 tons and 138 kilograms of cannabis and its derivatives.
