Major Operation in Safi... Royal Gendarmerie Seizes Tons of Drugs from a French Tourists' Caravan!

Members of the Royal Gendarmerie in Sibt Jazoula, under the direct supervision of the regional commander in Safi, managed to foil a major international smuggling operation after intercepting a family station wagon (a camper van) with French license plates on National Highway No. 1 between the El Ghiat region and Sibt Jazoula. A thorough search of the vehicle led to the discovery of a record shipment of shira weighing approximately three metric tons, which was en route from Tangier to Essaouira.
Following this operation, the vehicle’s occupants—a young man and woman of French nationality—were arrested and taken, along with the seized contraband, to the headquarters of the Royal Gendarmerie’s local command. The two suspects were placed in pretrial detention under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office to facilitate in-depth judicial investigations, uncover the circumstances surrounding the shipment, and identify its source and destination, as well as to trace the national and international ramifications of the criminal network involved.