Rabat, Morocco (TMT)- The Moroccan authorities opened an investigation after the launch of a French-based documentary on Canal+ which revealed that the Moroccan police and Gendarmes were involved in a large-scale drug trafficking network in the northern part of the Moroccan Kingdom.
Canal+ throw a spotlight on a vast traffic of Hashish that included policemen, Gendarmes, and even coastguards of the Moroccan Royal Navy.
The Moroccan daily Assabah said in yesterday’s edition that the “Moroccan authorities have been struck by the extent of the scandal revealed by French television.”
“They are busy backtracking smugglers and traffickers who delivered overwhelming evidence about the case, trying to determine the location of some of the villas that appeared in said documentary,” Assabah said.
In said documentary, Canal+ said that for each trafficking operation, the authorities would have received between US 30000$ and US 40000$ million.
The Moroccan Times.
